Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Emerson, "In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." There is a quotation from Charles Kingsley that books open their hearts to us as brothers. The foreword is an honest and genial invitation to buy books. But there imbedded in its midst is that, wayward word "catalog." No U, no E. just og. On the outside of the list, the same atrocity occurs. No U, no E. just...
This conclusion was derived by comparing New Brooms with the manager's greatest success, The First Year. The latter will be recalled as a genial and amazingly human comedy of married life. It lacked a plot and was replete with homely wit. New Brooms boasts a plot, little penetration and less laughter...
East of Broadway. Cops and crooks in disagreement, with the genial Owen Moore heading the police detachment, make one more motion picture. The deadly seriousness of most pictures of the type is happily discarded; and the piece is played as comedy. Both the picture's punch and the star's are delivered with a smile. Accordingly, the proceeding becomes eminently bearable and at times refreshing. Marguerite de la Motte and Mary Carr contribute liberally to the entertainment quota...
Stevenson is spoken of as perpetually gay in the midst of physical agony, financial reverses, artistic disappointment. It is true that he was of a buoyant nature?a genial bubble riding stormy seas. But he was subject to fits of overwhelming depression. "Oh Medea, kill me or make me young again!" he cries...
Manhattanites recalled a time when, for many moons, the Messrs. Shubert similarly banned the rotund, genial presence of Critic Alexander Woollcott* in any of their Broadway pleasure palaces; recalled ruses, disguises, trickery resorted to by the genial Woollcott to deceive the Messrs. Shubert and slip in unperceived; recalled the waning of that feud, a reconciliation and Critic Woollcott's presence again regularly gracing an aisle seat whenever the Messrs. Shubert had something new wherewith to beguile the public in its idle hours...