Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker was able, genial Henry H. Curran, Manhattan attorney, onetime Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, candidate for mayor of New York City in 1921, who is fast becoming a national figure as anti-skyscraper...
Urbane, precise, conservative, rather than dapper; tolerant, rather than genial; exhibiting button shoes, a cold eye, grey hair and long fingers, Henry E. Huntington goes on buying things. At San Marino he breakfasts at seven and reads for an hour, turning the pages carefully. When he is in Los Angeles or Manhattan he goes to his office and spends a few hours with his railroads, his villages, cliffs, painted motor buses, trolley-cars, skyscrapers, his coupons, clerks, cigars and the polite young men who look after his money and call him "Sir." It is pleasant to feel that these things...
With such words a wiry little man, flushed and fervent, reminded five Dominion premiers* and six Indian potentates,† of the might and glory that are Britannia's. The scene was "No. 10 Downing Street," famed residence of easy, genial, astute Premier Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain. But the fiery speaker, "The Pocket Hercules" who thundered Empire, was the Rt. Hon. Leopold C. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies. He it was who succeeded in vitalizing with emotional cohesion the third post-War Imperial Conference last week...
There was a welcome for Conductor Josef Willem Mengelberg, red-faced, genial, like a country doctor, and the concert .was on. There was the gay, graceful symphony of Johann Christian Bach, eleventh son of the mighty Johann Sebastian Bach; there was Beethoven's Eighth, droll, delightful, made side-splitting here and there by the heavy hand of Mynherr Mengelberg, there were excerpts from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, "Minuet of Will-o'-the-Wisps," "Dance of the Sylphs" and the "Rakoczy March," and sandwiched in between, featured, a U. S. work, given its first Manhattan performance...
...Story.* Sam Raingo, sly master of chicane, pensively retired millionaire, is called to London by the comrade of his homely boyhood in the north of England, Andy Clyth. It is 1918. Silver-haired Andy, actor, poet, jealous but genial friend, is Prime Minister and, since the War is going well, " the greatest man in the world." For years he has snubbed Sam Raingo politically. Now he needs him to manage the Ministry of Records, which is to say, British propaganda at home and abroad. Over a breakfast in No. 10 Downing St. an adroit bluffing match...