Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over a thousand men an women, employed by the University Dining Halls, have their own rest rooms and lockers below the ground. Ruler of this Plutonian community is Roy L. Westcott, genial administrator who keeps the underworld machinery running with precision...
...Genial, self-made, industrious, he is as obscure and as popular as his predecessor...
...Genial Banker Jones, at home on his Texas heath, wasted no time in laying this canard: "I have been introduced as a conservative. I am a liberal." Thereupon, taking his usual line that U. S. banks would have to loosen up "or else," he said: "We should all remember that it is the borrower who makes the mare go. He buys and hires and builds. He sometimes makes mistakes, but even so, he should still be encouraged...
Speaking of his Norton lectures, the first of which will be given tonight in the Fogg at 8:30 o'clock, the genial Giedion said: "They try to make a bridge between history and contemporary times, showing how history is dynamic, not day to day. We have no respect for our own tradition. Cultural life today is a unity, although every country has her own tasks to fulfill. We need to have the courage to become conscious of ourselves; then we are able to form a tradition, necessary for every epoch. The most important thing is for those who govern...
...autobiography Steffens pictured his development as a logical process, which had the effect of making him seem egotistical, self-assured, didactic. His letters show him to have been emotional, genial, affectionate, often bewildered, but with a lively awareness of his own contradictions. In one of his periodic hunts for seclusion, he wrote: "I am alone as I wished, and ... I can hardly stand...