Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, on his way to Newport, the usually genial Joe Frazer was not especially happy. He did not mind being the only dollar-a-year executive in the motor industry; his week-old position gives him other compensation of the incentive type...
...retiring president of the Santa Fe, genial, spry Edward J. Engel, 70, lured Gurley from the Burlington in 1939, made him executive vice president of the Santa Fe. Since then Engel & Gurley have spent over $200 million for new rolling stock, better signals and improvements to Santa Fe's 13,500 miles of track. Both became diesel enthusiasts; the Santa Fe owns more diesels than any other railroad. With the new equipment, Santa Fe has been able to keep pace with the traffic boom that shot gross revenue from $160 million in 1939 to $471 million last year...
This volume includes 336 letters written by Woollcott between 1897 and 1943 (the year of his death). Most of them reflect only the genial, humorous, enthusiastic side of the man whom the N.Y. Herald Tribune once called "the final arbiter of things literary in the United States." "He wrote angry, cutting, and sometimes cruel letters," say Editors Kaufman & Hennessey, "[but] none of them is included . . . for the reason that they were withheld by their recipients." But this collection of Woollcott's letters is jampacked with anecdotes about Woollcott's distinguished friends & enemies, touching stories couched in the Little...
...Competitive spirit," according to Davis, makes a ball player. Had he seen any prospects on the Harvard club? Jack Wallace looked pretty good to the B-team coach. "I get a real kick out of coaching, and it keeps me in shape for baseball." At that point the genial CPO went off to pitch batting practice for his charges on the B team...
...Division: Major General Raymond O. Barton, 54, stocky, genial West Pointer, former professor of military science at Georgetown, rated a crack tactician...