Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's a lot of difference between the spoken and the written word, and if you don't believe it go listen to one of the genial, not-too-soft-spoken gents who make their living beating the drums for college football teams around the countryside, listen to them talk and go off by yourself and read one of their effusive press releases. You wouldn't think the man was talking about the same bunch of pigskin pushers...
Died. John Morgan ("Rags") Ragland, 40, onetime truck driver and burlesque gagster who hit the big time in Broadway's Panama Hattie, became filmdom's genial portrayer of comic morons (Du Barry Was a Lady, Anchors Aweigh, Her Highness and the Bellboy); of uremic poisoning; in Hollywood...
Among Marine airmen in the Solomons in 1944 a bluff, genial Irishman came closer than most non-flying officers to achieving a legend. They laughed at his incredible yarns, gobbled up his extra rations, deferentially addressed him as Judge. Some almost believed the sign which sagged incongruously over his tent on mucky, jungle-thick Bougainville: "McCarthy for U.S. Senator...
...Lennep with his usual genial air urges all visitors to return again with a guest; and despite the collection's great intrinsic quality, Van Lennep asserts, "The collection is not a museum piece. It is here to be used by anyone who is interested in any phase of the theatre...
...Suitcase. Texas-born Tom Spies is a gregarious, genial sort who can charm his charity patients into doing anything for him, and charm the better-heeled into supporting his research. Most of his work is done at the Hillman Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. during an annual eight months' leave of absence from the University of Cincinnati. Unmarried, he refuses to own anything he cannot crowd into a suitcase, lives in hotel rooms to save bother, talks little but shop...