Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banks & Co., important Southern banking group, is headed by Aloysius Burton Banks, 62, Arkansas booster reputed to be worth $5,000,000. He is also a big factor in the insurance field. He lives in Little Rock in modest luxury, takes long walks at dusk, alone. Last week genial Mr. Banks took few walks, showed the strain of long conferences. He hoped that eventually his chain could be rewelded...
Robert Johns Bulkley, the genial, bulky Wet Democrat who won a Senate seat in Ohio three weeks ago, last week lay abed in Cleveland breaking three important rules. He had bronchitis. He was not traveling around letting himself be seen. He had not yet found an alter ego to build him up as a candidate for the presidency...
Popular hero (to English sport fans) of the Indian Round Table Conference last week (see p. 20) was popeyed, genial "Ranji" -thus nicknamed because his proper style is Lieut. Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jamsaheb of Navanagar...
...hobby. Two years ago Charles Lanier Lawrance, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and John S. Reaves, potent figures in Aviation Country Clubs, decided that a magazine of quality would help interest the wealthy in flying, founded The Sportsman Pilot. Neither magazine made money. Last week both were purchased by gruff-voiced, genial Frank A. Tichenor whose business is publishing, who has made a success of his Aero Digest. Under Publisher Tichenor, The Sportsman Pilot will retain most of its present form. In Fore an' Aft increasing emphasis will be laid upon seaplaning, water-gliding, air-yachting. Editorially, Publisher Tichenor, disciple...
...tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made a spectacular escape from Bloommingdale Asylum, changed his name, lives now in Virginia, legally sane; a third, Lewis Stuyvesant became Lieutenant Governor ot New York. Giant, genial Brother Bob got elected sheriff by servicing farmers cows with a prize bull. He used to hunt for robbers at night disguised as a cowboy. He was married twice (once, briefly, to famed Diva Lina Cavalieri). He had innumerable friends, knocked three town houses together to have room...