Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likes. Under his high-spending management, the ranch (it has never made a red cent) has become one of the show places of the region. But he is shyly conscious of being a little more prosperous than his neighbors, is afraid of being thought a showoff. Talkative and genial, he walks with the swivel-hipped, bowlegged, rolling gait of a cowboy, wears his heart on his sleeve, tells his most intimate business to anybody who happens to be around. A sure sucker for any kind of financial venture, he has lost enough money on bogus oil stock to keep many...
...King" died a multimillionaire, happy in the fact that he had stopped a third term for Ulysses S. Grant. A onetime brickmaker's apprentice, genial "Judge" Israel W. Durham, took over, carried on the pattern until 1905, finally died of what was termed "paralysis of the heart"-which was no surprise to some cynical Philadelphia taxpayers. After him came "The Dukes," the three Vare brothers, sons of a South Philadelphia hog-breeder: 1) George, one of the "King's" lieutenants, a contractor; 2) Edwin H., an ashman who extended his control of the neck to most of Philadelphia...
Seven years ago, some students at the University of Minnesota formed a Bach Society. They persuaded a genial, absentminded, popeyed music professor, Donald Nivison Ferguson, to be their conductor. Anyone able & willing to sing Bach for three hours a week could join. The Bachsters welcomed not only students, but socialites, white-collar workers of Minneapolis and St. Paul, a telephone lineman. Once a year the Bach Society held an "open meeting," free to the public...
...plays in the main square of the capital and the people stroll round & round. The highest officer in the Army is a captain. Prince Felix's proudest possession is The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin Roosevelt, personally presented by President Roosevelt last autumn. Luxembourg's canny, genial Foreign Minister Joseph Bech (who resigned as Premier because he thought he had held the job too long), likes to swap stories with newspapermen. The newspapermen like to hang out in chess-playing Herr Klopp's hotel at Remich and watch the Germans across the river...
Kelly & Nash quickly agreed with Mr. Horner on a Horner henchman as the gubernatorial candidate: Harry B. Hershey, 54, a genial party hack. Mr. Kelly, inveterate Third Termite, struck off a heart-rending slogan for last week's primary: "For Roosevelt and Humanity." On primary day Mr. Roosevelt ran fairly well (see p. 14), but Humanity had rough going. While Mr. Stelle was properly crushed by the machine-voters seemed to resent his "seizure" of the Governorship the day before-the Republican vote showed the Kelly-Nash-Horner machine parlous times ahead...