Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fala, Franklin Roosevelt's shaggy black Scotty and near-constant companion, rode his master's funeral train from Warm Springs to Washington, was exercised at station stops by U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Arthur Prettyman, Mr. Roosevelt's genial valet (see cut). Five-year-old Fala attended the Hyde Park burial services with his former mistress, the President's cousin Margaret Suckley (who has taken him back), cowered and whimpered at the gun salute, rolled over on the grass (the President's favorite Fala trick) during the hymn. In spite of barking furiously...
James Dunn makes a comeback playing Johnny, the singing waiter, who is supposed to win the family bread but somehow forgets on the way from bar to bar. He is Irish enough, but behind that genial smile a little more substantial warmth would not go amiss. He is certainly adequate, and so is Dorothy McGuire, though she is branded for life as "Claudia...
...Beyond genial Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, Chief of Naval Personnel, the idea of women in the Navy had few champions. The harumphs of the admirals on Constitution Avenue could be heard all the way to Arlington...
Valentim Bougas of Brazil, President-Dictator Getulio Vargas' discreet financial negotiator, was active behind the scenes. Genial, foxy Sefior Bougas, a veteran of many conferences, tagged this one like the rest: "First comes the illusion, then disillusion, finally reality...
Died. William Eugene ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, 82, genial, world-famed prohibition zealot; of a bladder ailment; in Binghamton, N.Y. No fainthearted saint, Boozebuster Johnson admittedly lied, bribed, even downed drinks to pile up evidence against the Demon Rum. Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to combat bootlegging in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), he got 4,400 convictions, lost five deputies, shot. On a teetotaling world tour in 1919, he cheerfully lost an eye but won admirers in a free-for-all slugfest with unregenerate London tipplers. Quiescent since 1929, Crusader Johnson once confessed: "The more I talked, the wetter the country...