Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thunder in the City (Columbia) is the meaningless title of a story about a U. S. ballyhoo artist who turns England topsyturvy promoting a new metal named magnalite. Gash-mouthed Edward G. Robinson plays the role in his customary Napoleonic manner. As genial Dan Armstrong, he lands penniless in London, bluffs his way into an option on the magnalite mines, installs a duke as board chairman, sends fleets of blimps over London carrying magnalite signs, soon sells all his stock to enthusiastic herds of subway riders. At this point another capitalist gets his hands on the only process that makes...
...verdant Severn valley of England where still survive the genial, autocratic Squire and the great yet cozy country house, lies Bewdley, one of the safest Conservative constituencies in the Kingdom. Its Parliamentary member for the last 28 years has been Stanley Baldwin, now nearly 70, and younger members of the Party say he would understand more of their troubles "if the P. M. ever had to fight for his seat, instead of just standing in Bewdley." To its homely broad-brogued farmers the Prime Minister went last week to confirm what everyone knew -that he is about to retire from...
...Dean of the College, Oberlin chose Professor Carl Wittke, genial head of the history department at Ohio State, whose crack History of Canada is standard even in Canadian universities. The acting dean of men, Alumnus Donald Melbourne Love, then became Secretary of the College, succeeding retiring George M. Jones. From Lawrence College (Appleton, Wis. ), which recently lost its President Henry Merritt Wriston to Brown, Oberlin took Dean of Women Marguerite Woodworth, to replace ex-Dean of Women Mildred Helen McAfee who left Oberlin last year to become President of Wellesley (TIME, May 25). One outcome of this intercollegiate shuffling...
...thought that real labor action was imminent when the President called Congressional leaders in Washington by long distance and asked them to meet him on the day of his return to Washington. Then on a sunny afternoon he drove down to Warm Springs station, waved good-by to 100 genial natives, to his two mules Tug & Hop who were also present drawing a wagon, and set out for Washington...
...three children, a tasteful circle of friends as decently well off as themselves. Suddenly, after Alec's and Johnnie Graham's amateur operetta had made a sensation, she found herself a back number entertaining mobs of Alec's "Yahoo" theatrical acquaintances. He began living in a "genial, gregarious, alcoholic mist" and now declared that their old friends had always bored...