Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers at ease. Nothing is more difficult than disentangling a reader from his own era and transporting him back to times gone before. One is compelled to praise the crescendo of appeal developed by Mr. Colby as he travels westward, eastward, southward, and finally Westward. Only by a genial perusal of dark pages and the vagaries of his own adventure in America could the author have found the American soul beneath the sectional variations which he defines so accurately. The American heart that is not contented asks, "How?", not "Why?". The why of Fredonia, the generic term for the land...
...University of Kansas, a Dry State's main university, is Dr. Logan Clendening. Dr. Clendening is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a writer on medicine for newspapers. These facts gave piquancy and currency to his paraphrase last week of the late genial...
...before the Board of Standards & Appeals. Such a position requires no legal experience. Word soon got round that if you wanted to locate a garage in a restricted neighborhood or construct a building out of unapproved material, the man to "see" was "Doc" Doyle. By 1930. aged 60, the genial little man had acquired nine children and more than a million dollars...
Picture a big, genial bear that walks like a man and is a man. You have pictured Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Last week at the League sessions in Geneva he came, after long probation and tremendous effort, finally into his own. M. Litvinov, as the world press has only lately begun to admit, aspired from the first to be a Kellogg or a Briand: a Peace...
...abroad, he was given the agreeable post of Consul at Lyons, with no duties, some privileges. The Coopers stayed abroad seven years, got back to the U. S. to find times had moved. Cooper became didactic, not to say cantankerous. "His view of the world . . . had ceased to be genial. He disliked many things, and disliked them more each year-reviewers, Yankees, newspapers, kings. Englishmen, mobs, national timidity and national complacency. And there steadily grew upon him a taste for laying down the law." Editors made libelous fun of him; he sued the editors, usually won. But his popularity slipped...