Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge Conservative majority then won, Britain's present Conservative Cabinet is carrying on today under Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who is colder to Geneva than even Mr. Baldwin was. Recently he dropped the League of Nations completely out of the annual Speech from the Throne (TIME, Nov. 8). Genial Lord Cecil spoke of his winning the Nobel Prize last week as "a feather in the cap of the League of Nations." Like many another British lord he has something of a weakness for the Nazis. "A plain, naked transfer of territory back to Germany would be difficult," said Nobel...
...most of his parishioners of Holy Trinity Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, in a down-at-heel section of St. Louis, Rev. Sophrony Balaban, with his neat black beard, his hefty frame, his genial smile, seemed a fine figure of a man. Twirling a big walking stick, Father Balaban made a point of circulating in his parish to collect contributions for the church, often turned up at night in Serbian haunts, where he smoked and drank as heartily as anyone. A onetime coal miner in Indiana, ordained a priest after attending a Russian seminary in Pennsylvania, Father Balaban had gone...
...Corliss, who describes himself as "not a Communist but a critical Communist sympathizer," was on hand with two Golden Books of American Friendship With The Soviet Union weighing 50 Ib. each. These contained the autographs of 100,000 U. S. citizens, were presented by critical Communist Sympathizer Lament to genial, likable Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander Troyanovsky, who with his homey wife constantly presents Washington with a spectacle of cozy domesticity. "How unfortunate would our country be," twinkled the Ambassador, "if our Government and Stalin had not foreseen the aggressive tendencies of certain countries which want to jump...
Despite its genial aimlessness, I'd Rather Be Right succeeds in venturing with impunity into an almost unprecedented form of satire. No stage has ever had such temerity in lampooning members of an existing government by name. Playwrights Kaufman & Hart call no bad names but give all the right ones...
...genial person of Song-and-Dance Man Cohan. President Roosevelt admits that "the trouble with this country is that I don't know what the trouble with this country...