Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known, by name at least, to the most assiduous tourist and most casual habitué. These were: Flossie Martin, plump, china-cheeked ex-show girl; Kiki, black-haired, impish French painters' model; Nina Hamnett, English painter and expert on sailors' chanteys; Jimmy Charters, ruddy-faced and unfailingly genial barman. The four were not friends, were in fact rather rivals, each ruling a separate coterie-the ladies at their tables at the Dome, Rotonde or Select, Jimmy at whatever bar he happened to be tending at the moment...
...have given us too much of the ignorant and selfish woman, for the good of their loving mother theme. John Boles plays a particularly bovine husband. Anne Shirley, as the daughter, does convincingly but to what avail? Alan Hale gives distinction to the part of Miss Stanwyck's genial boy friend...
Although Langer felt "thoroughly deflated by the genial sarcasm of my colleague", he proceeded to give a summary of European affairs high-spotted by minimizing the importance of the new Rome-Berlin axis...
...That genial iconoclast, John R. Tunis, whose official calling in life is tennis expert, but who some time ago addressed himself to the problems of education in America, has taken another shot at the colleges of the nation in an article in the current Scribner's entitled "Selling Scholarship Short." Here the ambitious idol-smasher, not content to rest with his recent doubtful answer to the question "Was college worthwhile?" points out that a large number of the colleges in the United States are unable to get enough students to fill their halls, and hence resort to underhanded practices, from...
This week genial U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, fresh from a conference with President Roosevelt, informed the Mexican Government that "Washington is interested in the situation confronting the petroleum companies." Fear that the U. S. $200,000,000 oil interests, the U. S. $500,000,000 mining interests will be squeezed out by taxation, higher wage demands, has been haunting American industrialists in Mexico during Cardenas' term. Taking the first important formal step affecting U. S.-Mexican relations in four years, the Ambassador warned that "anything that would disturb the status quo and good relations would be regretted...