Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lavish, genial was the luncheon next day in Karin Hall, elaborate hunting lodge of the Reich's Master of the Hunt, Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring, the No. 2 Nazi. Before leaving Germany for Poland, former President Hoover took what seemed like a long-range dig at President Roosevelt. "Most of the nations I have visited," reported Herbert Hoover, "have done more in public health and housing for the lower-income groups than we have in America...
...WAKE THE DEAD-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). An English couple, just returned from South Africa with a group of friends, are brutally murdered, a few days apart and in different parts of England. Scotland Yard suspects all members of their party, all of whom suspect each other. Genial, astute Dr. Fell solves one of his most opaque jobs...
After the book is laid aside, the ideal of a genial and utterly proficient doctor remains in mind. The kindliness and unselfishness of his long career make us wonder whether such a man will be able to find his place in the bureaucracy which seems inevitable in government public health. The question immediately arises as to whether this ideal of the country doctor can survive that trend...
Emperor Nero is supposed to have been a bang-up organist and bagpiper. England's Henry VIII composed chamber music and religious choruses. Germany's Frederick the Great was a flute player. Most musical of present-day royal figures is Denmark's tall, genial Crown Prince Frederik...
Pittsburgh, dazzled with its brand-new $250,000 symphony orchestra, formed last fall, had been trying on conductors like a rejuvenated dowager trying on new hats. In the 'nineties and the early 1900s Pittsburgh boasted a respectable symphony orchestra under genial Victor Herbert (Babes in Toyland, Kiss Me Again), and sternly mustached Emil Paur. In 1910 the orchestra collapsed, remained collapsed for 16 years. Subsequent revival, on a shoe-string budget under Conductor Antonio Modarelli, was halfhearted...