Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copy of the Dingell speech had reached bustling Cabell Phillips, Washington correspondent for Hearst's Chicago Herald-American, and Phillips saw a chance to get a Chicago man to reply; the Herald-American thinks the present button is good enough. He took the Dingell speech to genial, white-haired Representative Edward A. Kelly of Chicago, asked him to do something about...
...genial Kentuckian has largely practiced what he preaches about a varied background. Interested in newspaper work from the start, Edstrom began work on a small weekly "throw-away" journal while still at Wayne University in Detroit. He attracted the attention of the metropolitan dailies, moved up to the Detroit Free Press, and after several years, shifted to the Toledo News Beam...
When President Roosevelt went to Teheran in 1943, he took 50 detective stories along. For his 1945 conference with Churchill and Stalin he planned to take with him some of the most genial English essays in modern literature: The English Spirit by Alfred Leslie Rowse, Fellow of Oxford's All Souls College...
...recognition of the Lublin Moscow-manufactured Polish Committee as the Provisional Government of Poland is a challenge flung not so much at the London Poles as in the teeth of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. It is the latest move in what is coming to look like a genial form of Soviet blackmail of its western allies...
...role of the heroine and makes Kate Julian the unrestrained, self-possessed girl she should be. In the supporting cast, William Sullivan leads the rest as the school-masterly Mr. Coyle; Lynn Baker's Mrs. Julian is a bit over-neurotic; and Mary Savage is too sharp for the genial, ingenuous Mrs. Coyle. The stage designers have fallen short of the profuse Victorianism that is required...