Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance in the national spotlight. He appeared to dislike it. Only last year his boyhood friend, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, plucked him from a prosperous but relatively obscure private & corporation practice in small Jamestown, N. Y. to be general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Shy, husky, genial, he likes to dance, ride over his farm near Jamestown, boat on Lake Chautauqua. To newshawks he protests: "I've never done anything. I'm just a country lawyer." But after two weeks of curt, pointed questioning and repartee in. Pittsburgh, observers were rating him an able opponent...
...Babbled Genial Jim, orating at a London banquet after tossing off many a beaker: "When the next General Election comes-and that will not be for some years-perhaps three years...
...rough, sprawling Harbin, Manchuria swarmed with intrigue-Chinese v. Russians, Japanese v. Chinese, Russians v. Japanese, White Russians v. Red Russians, bandits v. everybody. Into this hotbed, as U. S. Consul, stepped George Charles Hanson, huge, round, genial and imperturbable as a sculptured Buddha. In Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Newchwang, Tientsin, Swatow, Chungking, Foochow he had already made himself one of the Far East's best-known diplomats. It had been 13 years since he left his native Bridgeport, Conn, as a Cornell engineering graduate. In that time he had learned to stay sober while gulping vast quantities of vodka...
...circus fat ladies who indulge in amorous by-play with midgets. Cardini, a suave and silent magician, is on a higher plane than these. But it would take more than a clever magician to induce us to sit quietly through the antics and old jokes of Milton Berle, the genial master of ceremonies...
Born in Lisbon, N. Y. 64 years ago, Dr. Stocking was educated at Amherst (1895), held his first pastorates in New Haven, Bellows Falls, Vt., Newtonville, Mass. He has been at St. Louis' Pilgrim Church for the last seven years. Tall, grizzled, genial, he is the father of four daughters to each of whom he gave the middle name Porter. Much in demand as a college preacher, Dr. Stocking has written numerous ethical-whimsical books for children (Query Queer, The Golden Goblet, Mr. Friend...