Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta Journal's Washington correspondent, Ralph Smith, is a quiet, iron-grey, genial Southern gentleman who manages to cover the news without ever seeming to hurry. Newsman Smith, uniformly good-humored (unless someone clapper-claws his idol, Georgia's Senator Walter George), is not given to hysteria. But last week House clerks told him that the Seventy-Seventh Congress, in its first 100 days, had voted appropriations totaling $16,091,543,000. For his readers' benefit, he spelled it out: "sixteen billion, ninety-one million, five hundred and forty-three thousand dollars." Newshawk Smith then went...
Thus last week, in the overcrowded obituary column of the Times, smart Londoners read with regret of the end of "Little Fortune," the genial and popular headwaiter who for years had greeted them at banquets at the Savoy. A short, bald, smiling man, he looked not unlike Benito Mussolini. But Headwaiter Picchi's hatred for Mussolini cost him his life...
Great weakness in the pitching department, compensated by hitting strength are the two dominant features of the current Yardling baseball squad. Only one really first-string hurler, Warren Berg, is available for genial, broad-shouldered Coach Samborski's nine, but there are good batters galore...
...battling Demon Rum, he introduced the law that became the 18th Amendment, helped the tall, droop-mustached Minnesota zealot, Andrew J. Volstead, write the Prohibition enforcement law. But as saloons became speakeasies and gangsters turned to bootleggers, Volstead got all the knocks. Almost nobody had it in for genial, kindly Morris Sheppard. He was no fanatic, and everyone knew it. He simply thought liquor was poison. Texas went right on drinking and re-electing Morris Sheppard...
...than any other officer in the service, Admiral Hepburn knows what it is to meet the press, from his experience as delegate to London and Geneva Conferences. Still less a stranger to press problems is the new aide wangled last week for Admiral Hepburn: Hal O'Flaherty, able, genial managing editor of Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News...