Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the U. S. might have to fight, willy-nilly, if its rubber-&-tin lifeline were actually cut. Nobody would dislike that war more than the Japanese officers under genial Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto; they have a great liking and respect for the U. S. Navy...
Last week genial Colonel Adler, who served overseas with the 77th Division in 1918, told a group of Princeton alumni and students about a bill which was being drawn up for Congressional action. Most interesting detail: not only young men would be drafted, but about 15% of the draftees would be men from 32 to 38, and 5%, men of 38 to 45 (on the proved theory that groups combining different ages and various levels of intelligence do the best soldiering...
...York Times's Tokyo Correspondent Hugh Byas is genial, red-faced, slow-moving, and his Scottish burr is thick as haggis. He is besides generally considered the most reliable foreign correspondent in Japan. Last week he cabled home an extraordinary dispatch. His subject was Japanese alertness with regard to The Netherlands East Indies. He concluded the cable with the following words, which he said Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita had probably sent to Japanese envoys everywhere, had certainly addressed to the Foreign Office staff in Tokyo...
...years ago Manhattan's up & coming Museum of Modern Art decided to invade Paris, to show the Parisians what U. S. artists had accomplished. Backed by its president and chief angel, genial, glamorless Nelson Rockefeller, the Museum staged an exhibition of U. S. art at the Jeu de Paume Gallery near the Louvre, invited Paris to come and take a look. So successful was the venture that the Modern Museum decided to go on from there, show Paris the artistic achievements of other American countries. Last summer President Rockefeller went to Mexico City to make arrangements for a Modern...
...Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hair-brushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity. It may be a 20th-century, streamlined job--this "Pinocchio"--but the old familiar tale is robbed of none of its genial moralizing and pathetic humor...