Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glen Cunningham's voice of experience will open the Crimson cross country season when all prospective barriers meet next Tuesday upstairs in the lounge room of the Dillon Field House at 3.15 o'clock. Cunningham has been asked to speak by Coach Jaakko Mikkola, the genial cross country mentor who was last spring promoted to head track coach...
...interested in ideas as in its people. Reddish remarks pass current, but they develop the characters, not the characters them. Bishop Holden, champion of the old order, although a little sententious, is not made to look ridiculous; Martin Paterson, champion of the new, is as non-chalant as that genial Communist, Earl Browder, and gladly abandons his lectures...
Last week Chairman Hamilton turned his attentions briefly to Eastern headquarters in Manhattan, run by the Landon convention floor manager, Massachusetts' genial, bumbling Representative Joseph William Martin Jr. In the opinion of newshawks assigned to cover it. the No. 2 GOP headquarters could do with some of the jacking up which the chairman had furnished in Chicago. One major trouble, complained they, was that Joe Martin's assistant publicity man, onetime Hoover Secretary George Akerson, treated the press as though he were still in the White House...
...Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels in 1901 to 16 million in 1926. Beavers "were butchered to make ugly hats," thereby removing a genial animal as well as causing floods. In 1857 the Ohio legislature decided that passenger pigeons "the most abundant and the most beautiful of American game birds," needed no protection. The last existing specimen died in Cincinnati in 1914. "One solitary heath hen was living at last accounts."* The catch...
...boys say what was nearest to their representative hearts about Adopted Mother. Thrilled to see so many happy Crimson gentlemen from far and wide, but delighted even more by the intelligence of the non-Harvard tribute-givers. Thanks be to Almighty God for such enlightened outlanders, especially for that genial man, Dr. Hele, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Granddaddy of Harvard as Father of John. The Vagabond, entertained this summer in princely manner by the generous master, admonishes the authorities to be kind to him. Listened with all ears to the music of the "Tercentenaria," but wondered to myself...