Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's new superintendent of schools is a genial Rotarian with a glad hand and a quick mind, who has run Kansas City's schools for the past seven years. He also heads the American Association of School Administrators. A preacher at heart, Episcopalian Herold Hunt likes to fill in for vacationing ministers (he always draws a big crowd), often preaches to his teachers, too ("Don't be a grouch, avoid the 'little God' complex"). But Kansas City teachers remember him with affection: he got more money for his teachers than any man before...
When he went to Washington as Ambassador in 1944, he said: "I have never worn striped pants and I never will." Fellow diplomats got to know him as a genial, hard-drinking six-footer who preferred, in the Spanish phrase, "to talk with his pants off" (i.e., frankly). But he worked well with U.S. diplomats at San Francisco and Chapultepec. In 1946 he resigned in disapproval of President Velasco Ibarra's erratic domestic policies. Last week, Ecuadorians heard that he might not take his Senate seat, but declare himself at once as a candidate for President...
...never before caddied for a grown man wearing short pants," drawled the caddy. The plus fours that Bobby Locke brought with him from South Africa got plenty of attention last week in Texas. They were not the only reminder Bobby Locke brought of a past, and more genial, era in golf...
...continuity satisfied, the Greek court turned to mourning, and the world to taking a good look at the obscure yachtsman who has ascended the world's most controversial throne. The new King started with advantages over his deceased brother: no taint of supporting the prewar Metaxas dictatorship; a genial, democratic manner; an energetic, intelligent wife...
...gale of oratory on free speech and freedom of the press, that followed, Stearns conceived the idea of starting a new paper, under an anonymous but non-Collegian editorship, to serve as the Advocate of the people. His literary aides in the infant enterprise were Charles S. Gage '67, genial versifier and the most popular man in his class, and William G. Peckham '67, a precocious lad who had entered the College at the age of fourteen...