Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there is no nonsense about either them or him. In short, he is a typical product of Victorianism: ultraconservative, even to attending church regularly and dissecting the sermon at a heavy mid-day dinner, decorously genial, upright-no breath of scandal has ever touched his life-and painstakingly methodical...
...book, is now in so many homes-Trader Horn. He had the same shiny bald head, the beard that looks as if it had been doused in foamy soapsuds, the same sad mastiff eyes. His nose was shiny and a little bulbous. His speech had a genial and sarcastic tang for the silly staring people who came to see him, his mind retained a vast curiosity and with it inevitably, a courteous and inclusive scepticism, an uncertainty, an almost universal doubt. "He habitually formed so humble an estimate of the value of his works that he was generally surprised...
Where are there such hosts as at Harvard? Where indeed? Harvard men are charming. The cannot be said to aim at, for the essentially are, good form. They have raised the genial practices of hedonism to the point of polished art. Half of them for instance, would no more think of studying without a glass and bottle at hand than the other half would of studying under any circumstances. The have the happy faculty of taking nothing seriously, least of all football: a virus of which Yale might do well to absorb a little. For intrinsic vigor and communal health...
...phrase often penned by Samuel Pepys, who will live in the genial preservative of a diary he kept in the 17th Century as long as there is English literature. Mr. Pepys was not, in the Victorian interpretation, a strictly moral man, and it is from his amatory propensities that much of this graceful comedy is spun. He visits a lady's lodging with the worst motives in the world; is interrupted by the arrival of His Gracious Majesty Charles II who has practically the same motives; is further embarrassed by the entrance of irate Mrs. Pepys. Wallace Eddinger plays...
Even more important is the work that Mr. Carens does as the undeniable authority on Harvard athletic policy. No man, at least so it seems, is so thoroughly informed as to what is going on inside Mr. Bingham's mind as the genial Transcript news gatherer. He is seldom seen on Soldiers Field for the afternoon practice sessions, but he spends a good deal of time at the Harvard Athletic Association during the morning hours. He but seldom waits for Harvard news to be released through the official spokesman, much preferring to get his stuff straight from Harvard's athletic...