Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Frank Sarantos, genial owner of the club, "We may not be able to hold prices down much longer. They want your right arm for a piece of ham these days." With a deft stroke of his pen he marked up ham and egg sandwiches from 35 to a tentative 40 cents. "All but a few sandwiches will stay the same," he continued, adding that he would await further moves by his competitors. Normally a power behind the scenes, Sarantos had appeared during the current crisis in Washington to take personal command of his forces...
Britain's Dick Burton was invited to the U.S. to see whether British golfers could do any better. Burton, a lanky, genial, blue-eyed pro, started explaining as soon as he arrived in the U.S. Said he: "I wish to deny the stories credited...
Died. Mikhail Ivanovitch Kalinin, 70, longtime (1919-46) President of the U.S.S.R'., biographer of Stalin (1,000,000 copies issued); after long illness; in Russia. Peasant-born "Papa" Kalinin, most genuinely loved of Russia's high command, led the great 1905 Putilov Works strike, served as a genial, goat-bearded front man for both Lenin and Stalin. Many Old Bolsheviks died at the hands of the Czarist and Communist secret police; some died in office. Kalinin was one of the first top men to beat the game: near blind and ailing, he retired last March, his party card...
Junior is a genial, hair-triggered young man who prepped at a Cambridge (Mass.) public school and at Exeter, flashed through Harvard summa cum laude, landed a fellowship at Cambridge University, and came back to Harvard a Junior Fellow. His senior thesis on Orestes A. Brownson, a Transcendentalist who turned Catholic, was published when he was 21, sold only 2,500 copies. With the war he went to OWI in Washington, then to OSS in the ETO, ending up as a corporal in political intelligence...
...Genial, spherical, Honduran Ambassador Julián Cáceres met another Latin American diplomat at a Washington reception. "I say, Caceres," said the friend, "TIME reports the Honduran opposition is using 'Pinos de Honduras' for a slogan, and your President of Congress maintains that a revolutionary ought to be hanged from each pine. What luck you aren't a revolutionary. The pine would surely break...