Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West developed her figure with an acrobatic act in which she lifted a 500-lb. weight, supported three 150-lb. male assistants. She played with Ed Wynn in Sometime, shimmied in Shubert revues, made her name on the Manhattan stage with Diamond Lil, in which she was a genial prostitute. The enormous swan-shaped bed which appeared on the stage in Diamond Lil came from Mae West's home, once belonged to Diamond Jim Brady...
...that tall, cool, piercing-eyed Sir Frederick, Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Government, would be sent to the White House this autumn to negotiate a final settlement of the Empire's War debt to the U. S. He sailed last week on the Majestic with genial, expansive, moose-tall British Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Ronald Lindsay. With elaborate understatement, Sir Frederick observed: "I am visiting America to observe the feeling toward the question of the War Debts. I expect I shall be presented with an opportunity of discussing the position with President Roosevelt...
...Author Sheldon emulated his book by editing Senator Arthur Capper's Topeka Daily Capital for a week as he believed Jesus would have done. So much in demand were copies that mats were rushed to Chicago, New York and London. Now 66, tall and genial, Author Sheldon has retired from the pulpit, is a doughty warrior for Prohibition, and a contributing editor to the Christian Herald (of which he was editor-in-chief from 1920 to 1925). He has written some 33 books, but his fame still rests upon In His Steps. It might be supposed that his wealth...
...fact that the author does keen justice to his characters. "Jemmy" Madison, for example, "the withered little apple-John," was "small, quiet, precise... In print he had authority and effectiveness; but he had neither of these qualities as chief executive of the nation;" William Howard Taft was a "genial, unambitious man who never got over the surprise at finding himself president;" Wilson's "chief character-defect... (was) his failure to remember that opponents could be honest, decent men." Here, again, there is nothing new. But in these and other sketches, Mr. Agar shows a detachment and insight decidedly worthy...
...Vladivostok and made his career the winning of China for Communism and the Soviet. He went to China in 1923 to negotiate a Chinese-Soviet treaty of recognition and agreement. Accepted as Ambassador at Peking in 1924 he worked hard for two years to accomplish his dream. Brilliant talker, genial host, Leo Karakhan is also one of the few athletic Soviet leaders: he plays first-rate tennis. His house in Peiping became a meeting place for the intelligentsia of north China. He picked the growing Nationalist movement as the coming power in China, gave it money and support. His nemesis...