Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surrender. Tweedy, genial Dr. Harry Tiebout (pronounced teebo) is physician-in-charge of the Blythewood sanatorium in Greenwich, Conn. He is also a lecturer at Yale's School of Alcohol Studies and an admirer of Alcoholics Anonymous. Like many another psychiatrist, he had long wondered what mysterious power enables A.A. to reform alcoholics when psychiatry fails. He has decided that the secret of A.A.'s success is the alcoholics' surrender to a higher power. And Dr. Tiebout has figured out a psychiatrist's explanation...
...have to watch our customers," smiled the genial director of George's Cottage Grille. "We don't have any of these boys in here," cried Saxe...
...country's population. The towering Andes effectively bar the transportation of foodstuffs from the fertile eastern region. Because of the chronic food shortage, the Ministry of Agriculture is the hottest seat in the Peruvian cabinet. In January, the Apristas gladly turned the post over to a chubby, genial landowner named Pedro Venture, later denounced him for failing to provide food for the people. Replied Venture: "I cannot offer you miracles...
Tall Ones and Trades. In private guise, Sam Breadon was a hospitable fellow, a genial server of long tall drinks. He liked to sing in barbershop quartets. He was a good guy, most baseball writers agreed; but he "would trade his grandmother if the price was right." In his way, he had a certain amount of sentiment for his ball club. Last year, when he flew down to Mexico, rumors spread that he was selling the Cardinals to Mexico's Pasquel Brothers. Sam denied it. Said he, grinning: "The Cards are not for sale . . . that is, [unless] some...
...Balmoral and Osborne] mounted on turntables so that they could be faced away from the wind. Weather permitting, she would ride over to these shelters in a little carriage drawn by a white pony led by a Highland attendant." When she died, "the Edwardian era had arrived in the genial shape of my grandfather; and the effect . . . was the same ... as if a Viennese hussar had suddenly burst into an English vicarage...