Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These two, who were boyhood chums in Poznan, personify Communist use of both brain & brawn. Balding, professorial Zaremba speaks six languages and worked as a clerk with the Nazi occupation forces as a spy for the resistance. Stocky, genial Kupczynski, who, when he stops smiling, looks like a Bowery tough, won Poland's highest medal for valor as a fighter in the resistance...
...your old friends are here: the fat German with a sear, the brave little Oxonian who is tortured while keeping his chin up, the big sex-appeal Gypsy boy with a tern shirt and 33 children, the usual retinue of glum Nazi henchmen, and, last, but not least, the genial white horse that wiggles its ears. You can't forget those gypsy kisses that's what the ads say. O.A.F...
Chief speaker at the service was moose-tall Rev. Charles Oscar Johnson of St. Louis, new president of the Alliance and onetime president (1932-33) of the Northern Baptists. Johnson, a genial, 260-lb. ex-farm boy from east Tennessee, runs one of the livest and most prosperous churches in St. Louis, where he has a reputation for knowing how to take care of himself in a fight without losing his enormous personal popularity. A humble man. he likes to be called Oscar. "I don't like anything," he once said, "that is going to separate me from...
...spite of the Disney technical skill, it has never been a very good idea to mix cartoons and live actors. With genial showmanship, Mr. Bergen & Co. barely manage to save their part of the show. Most of the Bongo section is just middle-grade Disney, not notably inspired. And once Mickey & friends get involved with Willie, the whole picture peters out and becomes as oddly off-balance and inconsequential as its title...
...boss of Saks, and as a genial extravert who likes to air his opinions, Adam is not above telling Sophie how she ought to run her fashion business. Sophie usually ends such discussions: "Now, Adam, dear, we've been all over that before. You know how familiar I am with the subject, so let's not discuss it again...