Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Impresario. Ravinia owes its existence to Louis Eckstein, a genial, versatile gentleman whose vocations have been many but whose one and only avocation is Ravinia. President Eckstein ("president" is the title he gives himself for managing and financing an opera company) was born 65 years ago in Milwaukee, attended public school and a business college run by Robert C. Spencer of handwriting renown. Passionately fond of music, he studied the violin, never became particularly expert, never considered making music his profession. His first job was with the Wisconsin Central R. R. for which he became passenger traffic manager while still...
Children. The social workers at Boston seemed rather a grim group, the old of no particular old age, the young without youth. Most were women. They all hurried about with tight faces. The more genial faces belonged to members of the various children's groups. J. Prentice Murphy, Philadelphia, was their philosopher. Noted he: "We cannot be strictly logical about human beings. We can prophesy with accuracy about masses of people?but not about individuals. Approximately 70,000 illegitimate children will be born in the U. S. in 1930, but no community can foretell who of its people...
David Cooper, an unknown from the Middle West, leaps into fame overnight by winning the national championship at Forest Hills. More, he leaps into a good job, for Mr. Harker, genial villain of the piece, is not only a member of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association's executive committee but has a penchant for employing tennis champions: he seems to think it helps him in his business. For a long time David sees nothing wrong with the picture. Mr. Harker pays him to sell bonds but insists on his playing in all the big U. S. and European tournaments...
...that for the space of one year he had been Bethlehem's president. Now, of course, he is internationally famed as Bethlehem's genial, talkative chairman. What Mr. Grace, who is now Bethlehem's president, would not tell, was the size of his, Mr. Grace's, salary. In Youngstown, only the day before, a new petition had charged that this salary exceeded $1,000,000 annually, "for which," the petition added, "he renders no adequate service or consideration." Never before had such things been said of the man whom Colyumist Arthur Brisbane immediately characterized...
...landed at Newark Airport with Dwight Whitney Morrow, that famed father-in-law who wants to be nominated for the Senate by New Jersey's Republicans beckoned to him for political-photographic purposes a small boy from the welcoming throng. After news-camera men had photographed Famed Colonel, Genial Candidate and Delighted Child, they asked the small boy his name, reported the incident to their editors. Next day it was news indeed to small Jimmy Costello, son of Newark's city engineer, when the Daily News (echoed by the American) reported that Col. Lindbergh had looked...