Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this Christmas conviviality, staged in the imposing private office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill proved himself once again the most quixotic and perhaps kindest hearted of genial Premier Baldwin's; ministers...
...likely to become the chief Roman Catholic attorney for the defense in this great case before the bar of public opinion? Not that busy organizer His Eminence George Cardinal Mundelein, no giant among dialecticians. Not the genial, benevolent Cardinal Hayes. Most certainly not His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell, preoccupied as he is with the affairs of Boston. Finally not His Eminence Denis Cardinal Dougherty, pious, harmoniously resident amid the calm of Philadelphia. None of the four U. S. cardinals ranks with the late James Cardinal Gibbons in ability to drive a persuasive quill. Does Rome look...
...France). Sidney Howard, who knew what they wanted, provides her and the Theatre Guild with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage. As a matter of principle, Carrie at length enters objection, threatens exposure; Babe submits; Carrie, principle gained, withdraws objection. One scene stages the home-watched coffin of Father...
Justice McKenna usually armed himself on the bench with a magnificent, reticent dignity, but in times of argument he rose like an angry emperor slashing controversy with vehement logic, scorching opponents with Voltairian sarcasm. Off the bench he was as genial as an Irish sergeant...
...indication of the mounting interest of Hungarians in the Monarchy was seen last week when the death mask of the Emperor Franz Josef, previously hawked without success among the numerous Austrian archdukes, was purchased for $2,000 by the Hungarian Archduke Friedrich. He, "Vater Friedrich" ("Papa Friedrich") is a genial bewhiskered man, the image of the Emperor whose death mask he purchased, would make "a good old-fashioned King" were he not too old to begin...