Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Valdosta is a genial town. Its citizens are trig of garb, slow of speech; they have prosperity; more, they have a hero, Woodrow Wilson, late President of the U.S. They remember him in Valdosta. On a spring day, the triggest, the most prosperous of the citizens of Valdosta, those gentlemen who compose the Chamber of Commerce, met totgether, issued, presently a manifesto. They called upon their fellow citizens for funds to establish an institution of higher learning for man?a college which should be a memorial to President Wilson. "That would be a worthy thing for us to do," said...
During the Paris proceedings Mr. Kellogg, the principal American delegate, was not only Ambassador in London but designated Secretary of State. Without his qualities of genial shrewdness and reasonable tenacity, the Paris conference, like the London conference last Summer, could not have reached the complete success it achieved...
...born "free and equal", and the professor claims to have the facts of life to fit the theory. Unequalities there undoubtedly are at present, but they are explained as Rousseau explained them, by the corrupting influence of society and training. Rousseau and this most democratic of professors will be genial spirits in the next world, and the professor runs the risk of being branded, along with the amiable Jean-Jacques, "un fou enrage" in this...
...outstanding achievement in Medicine and Physics during 1924. He has invented a device by which the beat of the human heart may be seen, measured, photographed, diseases of the heart detected, its action studied. It was in recognition of this device that the prize was awarded. Dr. Einthoven. genial 64-year-old Dutchman, is now visiting the U. S. He is sprightly, small, with a small grey beard, small grey mustache, wears in his countenance the alert and boyish shyness peculiar to men who have spent their lives probing into the physical mysteries of humanity. To a select company...
Lima, dressed in gala attire, festooned with myriads of electric lamps, sporting a liberal number of triumphal arches, and holding a jubilant populace, showed not a trace of anxiety over the nugatory revolt. And when Ambassador Pershing arrived, his genial smile was mirrored in the faces of tens of thousands. "December 9th" was celebrated...