Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water, Mexican friends of Dry Ambassador Daniels toasted a new era beginning Dec. 1, 1934, with the inauguration of His Excellency General Lázaro Cárdenas as the 45th President of the United States of Mexico. By an appropriate coincidence, grim General Cárdenas stands with genial Ambassador Daniels for grape juice and Prohibition...
...Genial tones over the telephone last night brought the information that there were three, six-foot lengths of goal post at the Commander Hotel. Investigation proved that there really were three pieces of the H.A.A.'s best uprights reposing in the baggage room of the hotel...
...disguises are removed from the kindly or officious or indifferent people who surround Marie, and she learns that Tenoki, the Japanese importer (Leslie Fenton) and Crawbett (Spencer Tracy), the U. S. student of tropical diseases, and Ratcliff (Robert Loraine), the genial English visitor, are secret service agents of their respective countries, bent on forestalling the enemy to world peace, Brogard (Siegfried Rumann). The picture winds up to a climax which, played in the power house of a dam, with the turbines screaming and plenty of dynamite on hand, is as thrilling as anything brought to the screen this year...
What Every Woman Knows (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is that many a wife is responsible for her husband's success. The neat and genial comedy in which Sir James Barrie expressed this sentiment was first produced in the U. S. in 1908 with Maude Adams playing the lead, revived in 1926 for Helen Hayes. Helen Hayes has the same part in the cinema version- that of Maggie Wylie who marries a solemn young Scot against his will, helps him get elected to Parliament, manages his career for him so unobtrusively that he considers his accomplishments inspired by a glamorous outsider...
Murder was the charge on which stout, genial Judge Roscoe Luke was bound over to a Georgia grand jury. One day last winter loiterers in Thomasville saw the judge step into a delivery truck, heard the report of a shotgun, found one Oscar Groover dead inside. Although a coroner's jury cleared Judge Luke, State and Federal investigators probed deep into his business affairs. Three years before he had resigned from Georgia's Court of Appeals to become a city judge in Thomasville because he wanted to devote more time to "business." Last week the State hoped...