Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born the son of a Connecticut carpenter in Knoxville, Tenn., 64 years ago, Judge Sanford gained a good education at the University of Tennessee (1883), at Harvard (1885), at Harvard Law School (1889). Genial, democratic in manner, with a talent for public speaking, he began a law practice that carried throughout his state. From his Yankee father he inherited a stout Republican faith. U.S. Circuit Judge Taft observed his legal ability, marked him as a good man. President Roosevelt brought him to Washington in 1907 as an assistant Attorney General, sent him back to Tennessee the next year...
...from being diffident, the Duke is making a splendid job of such varied tasks and duties as fall to his lot. He runs his place at Arundel in a manner which makes his invitations greatly sought after and is himself a genial, alert host and a sportsman. Furthermore, he is noted for the keen and intelligent interest he takes in his tenantry in all parts of the country. He is generally regarded as a normally intelligent young man with ample common sense and is liked and respected for his ideals by all acquaintances...
...Father of the House of Lords" is that genial golfer George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, two years younger than Lord North, and one of the last two or three men in England to wear a top hat every day, even with a sack suit. The Countess of Coventry, past her fourth score of years, likes to say; "I can still do my five miles in jig time on a tricycle, and how many of your young people can?" As a private collection, the Earl's gallery of historic oil paintings at Croome Court is second...
...Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine, who pay the same man to be president of both companies, though they are completely independent." Genial King Christian, leaving all his Danish courtiers behind, will go to Iceland next June and try to act as much like an Icelander as possible, will open the festival celebrating the 1000th anniversary of Iceland's Parliament with a speech he is now valiantly trying to learn?in Icelandic...
When the report was digested, "Roxy" began his message. Gaily colorful is "Roxy" who, in 1907, after seven years in the Marine Corps, borrowed chairs from an undertaker and started a motion picture house in Forest City, Pa. Immensely genial, he proclaims that his chief ambition is "to live to see the day when I could throw all cares aside and go some place in a little flat-bottomed boat. And there in that boat I could sit under a big sunbonnet, with a little, old fishing pole, and I could sit all day and fish for sunfish and perch...