Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduated from the Chicago Medical College,* began at once to practice with his father and his elder brother, William J. (born in 1861). The citizens of Rochester generally agreed that young Charles was the least "impressive" of the three Mayos. Perhaps his appearance prejudiced, for he was not genial. No ruddy jester was he, with a nervous eyelid and a midwifian ribaldry to cheer the anxious parent in her distress. Far from it. William J. was a spot that way, but Charles was a doleful fellow, "with a face pulled out of tallow." That was a long time ago. Last...
Land of Egypt. Joseph Smith Jr. had broken loose and Nauvoo, with 10,000 Mormons, swelled larger than any city in the state. Smith ruled by revelations -invariably convenient ones-by hellfire threats and a genial disposition. Besides being Prophet, he was judge, mayor and general of his own militia. When he said God had told him to start up polygamy as it had been in the days of Abraham and Solomon, none dreamed that the motive was not pious procreation, though a crony of the Prophet's was a "professor of midwifery," and Smith, a handsome six-footer...
...Wellington, capital of far-off New Zealand, Death came to William Ferguson Massey, for close on 13 years Prime Minister. He was a laughing man-one of the most genial that ever entered the public life of that Dominion. Mr. Massey was born at Limavady, County Derry, Ireland, 69 years ago; and at the age of 14 went to rejoin his parents in New Zealand, where they had moved eight years before. The embryo statesman became a farmer and, more to the point, a prosperous farmer. He entered Parliament in 1894, the next year becoming Chief Opposition Whip, a position...
...realm of sportsmanship little things count for much. The changing of the term "opponents" to the more genial "visitors" on the University's score boards is on the surface but a minor alteration, yet it helps to promote that atmosphere of gentlemanly rivalry which ought to distinguish all intercollegiate contests. While Dean Briggs was Chairman of the Athletic Committee it was ever his purpose to foster such a spirit; and this change is but one visible expression of his policy...
...which the actors parade as undergraduates with huge capital letters on their chests, you may dislike this one, by J. C. and Elliott Nugent. It has a track meet on the stage and a love scene at a fraternity dance. Under such severe handicaps, it manages to be a genial and, at times, an uncommonly amusing comedy...