Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With genial sophistry the new Ambassador explained how he will try to overcome the two obstacles to friendship. "I will simply say: 'Tovarish Molotov,' and start getting acquainted with the Soviet big shots," said he. "I have no use for Communists but I like Russians. They are pure-minded and simple...
...Genial Dick Harlow, famed expenent of the spinuer cycle offense, is sitting on a keg of dynamite in Cambridge this fall. He must fact a suicide schedule with but an uncertain crop of Junior gridders, victims of an acute attack of jitters in the objective Eli game last November...
...World War II, no site better fitted for a Shangri-La, if one could be found anywhere, than the high, autumnal fortress of Rocky Mountain Park. And if there was one U. S. citizen who seemed entitled to meditate on the mountains, undisturbed by the war, it was the genial, autumnal William Allen White, 72, editor of the Emporia Gazette for 45 years, onetime novelist, commentator, amateur politician but now chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies...
Scarcely had Heywood Broun's genial, untidy bulk been laid in its grave last winter when the American Newspaper Guild, which he had founded, burst into a bedlam of argument and dissension, like a roomful of children whose teacher has departed. Charges that the Guild was ruled by a handful of Communists and fellow travelers came to a head last month at the Guild convention in Memphis (TIME, July 22) when rebellious Guildsmen tried in vain to install a new regime...
...genial, moonfaced, pug-nosed, tireless ball-of-fire named Lou Russell Maxon, just turned 28, set up his own advertising agency (Maxon, Inc.) in Detroit. One by one, Adman Maxon bagged such big accounts as General Electric, Heinz "57 varieties," Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Gillette Safety Razor, by last year had a dozen whose total billing (about $9,000,000) was enough to rank Maxon, Inc. in the first flight of U. S. agencies...