Word: genial
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this very house lived old Dexter Pratt, whose popular blacksmith shop had been built next door at the corner of Story Street. Walking daily between Craigie House and Harvard Hall, Professor Longfellow Habitually stopped to chat with the genial forget tender. A strong friendship developed between the two, climaxed in 1839 when the poet immortalized smithy in a work that has been chanted by American schoolboys ever since...
Opposite Commissioner Yoshizawa at the Batavia conference table has been The Netherlands East Indies' genial, broad-faced, bespectacled Economics Minister Hubertus J. van Mook. As the weeks went by Minister van Mook knew very well that Japan's Army and Navy were slipping down the Indo-China coast, ever nearer the riches of the Indies. But he also knew that the Indies were becoming a nest of gun emplacements, barbed wire, trenches, that scores of U.S.-made bombers were being unloaded and assembled. And he knew that he had a very favorably disposed, if distant, neighbor named Franklin...
French sailors have gone ashore, started gardens on the hills above the harbor. The genial Governor, Admiral Georges Robert, regularly aims soothing nothings at the U.S., politely swears to fight at Vichy's order. Rather than risk an ugly incident, the British last November gave up their watch outside the harbor, left the patrol to two U.S. destroyers. Whether Admiral King sends a stronger task force to Fort de France is strictly up to Vichy's Admiral Darlan, Hitler, and the patience of Franklin Roosevelt...
Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major (Alumni Orchestra of the National Orchestral Association, conducted by Richard Korn; Victor; 7 sides; $4). Genial, wood-windy Brahms, notable for having no fiddles. A top-notch first recording...
...Ashurst (Arizona's "Silver-Tongued Sunbeam") bowed out after his defeat last fall, he assured his colleagues that while they struggled on he would be "enjoying the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night or the scarlet beauty of her blossoming cactus." Last week the genial self-styled Dean of Inconsistency became a member of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Headquarters: Washington...