Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of his monkeyshines, during which he pauses occasionally to juggle, dance, sing, play & tumble, versatile Mr. Cook introduces several hundred startling prop laughs. Always genial and ingratiating, he does everything from lighting Dave Chasen's mustache to making a hole-in-one with a small coal shovel...
...society in general that which society can do for itself. It is almost as reasonable for us to teach our pharmacy students how to mix soft drinks or to make sandwiches for the drug store trade." True Portrait. To offset the impression which the cinema, college publications and "the genial cynicism or barbed criticism of editorial comment in journals of opinion" create about college life, President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth in his convocation address gave his idea of the academic scene. Said he: "The true portrait of the American college would show a community in which generosity of spirit...
...they feel he is a fine sportsman. Many Englishmen would like to see him lose because in the 32 years that he has built boats for the cup contests he had never allowed any fellow-countryman to make a challenge, always getting his own in first. Now 80, ruddy, genial, and almost professionally optimistic, he still affects the costume that appears in most photographs-blue serge suit, yachting cap, polka...
...many a good and potent friend at New Haven. After two years at the Yale Law School, he returned to Omaha, married Regina Connell, who bore him two sons and a daughter, got his law degree at the University of Nebraska, was admitted to the bar in 1922. The genial contacts of politics attracted him. He served a year as a deputy county attorney, went to the Nebraska legislature for a term. His Omaha friends groomed him for Mayor, then decided to wait and run him for the House. They believe that with his western background and eastern connections...
Round, loquacious, genial, with big muscles, a fine anecdotal memory, a hearty appetite and a short deep scar? in his cheek, Manager Robinson, 66, has worked at baseball every summer for 50 years. He caught for the Baltimore "Orioles" when John McGraw played for them. Once a pitched ball broke one of his fingers, left it hanging by a thread of skin...