Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slim, sandy-haired Lawyer Douglas has a genial grin which twists itself into grim seriousness with disconcerting rapidity. He married a colleague of his high-school teaching days in Yakima, Wash., is careless in dress, likes bridge and the cinema...
...Herbert Marshall) on a park bench and, unaware that he is the president of Buchanan Automobile Co. on the lookout for novel recreation, persuades him to pose as her husband so that they can apply for cook and butler work together. Their employer turns out to be a genial racketeer (Leo Carrillo), who does all he can to further his domestics' increasingly complicated career. Failing to marry his cook himself, he discovers that she is in love with the butler, who by this time has returned to his old job and is preparing to marry a young lady...
...Cubans thought this election would be decisive but the favored candidate remained this week Dr. Miguel Mariano Gomez, who, it is expected, will be supported by a Nationalist-Liberal-Republican party coalition and who is seemingly favored by Cuba's military "Strong Man," genial, naïve, back-seat-taking Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who two years ago was a simple sergeant...
Last week's conclave in Chicago was no exception. Prize article on the block was the Philadelphia Athletics' genial, broad-beamed James Emory (''Jimmy") Foxx, twice voted "most valuable player" in the American League, propeller of 58 home runs in 1932, possessor of a lifetime batting average of .338. Casting covetous eyes at him was Thomas Austin Yawkey, equally genial and broad-beamed owner of the onetime lowly Boston Red Sox. Tycoon Yawkey paid $1,000,000 for the club three years ago, spent $2,000,000 more to raise the tailenders to fourth place...
Hardly a bout was what might be called close. Coach Lamar seemed highly satisfied by the results of his men's efforts, and while no official pronunclamento was fortheoming, the genial mentor seemed to expect a satisfactory season...