Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more or less drifted into the conversation, making like the genial host. "Yeah, it's a pretty nice place. Want me to show you around the Yard...
Everywhere grey, genial Custodian Cook, veteran of seven inaugurations and countless special appearances, posted guards against bomb, crackpot or assassin. Two were even assigned to the great three-foot air ducts, lest somebody crawl in and loose poison gas to be swept into the House chamber through the vent over the Speaker's chair...
General Motors Corp., long harassed by controversy over its Allison aircraft engine, last week distributed a booklet packaged in heavy cellophane, and titled: Airplane Power (with special reference to engines and altitudes). With the booklet was a note from G.M.'s genial Customer Research Director Henry Weaver: "After a long series of controversial sessions with our different engineering groups, aviation experts and military censors, we finally decided ... to omit everything on which the experts are not in full and complete agreement. The enclosed is the result...
...Pudgy, genial Hal O'Flaherty, 52, whom Columnist Westbrook Pegler once called "a Model T, or primitive, Americanist," recently took leave of absence from his job as Chicago Daily News managing editor to go back to an old love. A war correspondent in World War I and head of the News's European staff in 1924, O'Flaherty will leave for the Southwest Pacific to report World War II, replacing the News's George Weller, Pulitzer Prizewinner, who is ill. New News managing editor: Lloyd Downs Lewis, 52, a jack-of-many-newspaper-trades (book reviewer...
...Balding, genial Frank Walker, chair man of the Democratic National Commit tee, last week returned to Washington from a month's political tour of the U.S., stuck his tongue in his well-rounded pink cheek...