Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worked in the offices of Good Taste. Men came and went. There was Roger, the kindly ironist, who married her young sister, "Pet,"after long courtship of herself. There was little Crump, who had all the charm of a puppy dog. There was Roy Peck, the publicist with the genial personal touch. She loved Roy, but his environment proved too strong for her love. Finally there was Louis Bayard, cultured, a little dried up, in whose elegance she finally found comfort. Everywhere she sought-but her tortured, inquiring mind never found the "answers in the back of the book."This...
...just a short, fat, baldheaded man who has learned much in the last year and will learn a lot more in the next few weeks." Not all the campaign speeches of Editor William Allen White, self-nominated anti- Klan candidate for Governor of Kansas, have been as genial and mock-modest as this since he banged down his desktop last month, started taking $25 out of the till of the Emporia Gazette each week, and set off banging over the "skiddy, rocky, hilly, bumpy roads of his state-in a dilapidated automobile" seeking votes. The one string of his political...
...different times the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Times-Herald, Record-Herald, Evening Post. His services to the Republican cause brought him into contact with many a famed man, made it possible for him-for he never accepted an office-to become great by refusing greatness, notorious while shunning noitoriety. A genial, meagre, shrewd little man, he had a talent for friendship and an ability to stick to his principles, no matter how little they profited him. He told about his political adventures in a book of memoirs, From McKinley to Harding. One of his greatest coups was his success in having...
...gigantic, genial dawdler...
...difficult to see how Mark Twain could have written this statement in his autobiography: "I believe that the trade of critic, in literature, music and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades, and that it has no real value, certainly no large value. The genial Mark was not unduly annoyed by critics during his life-time. What has been called his exuberant lying" was never the subject of any serious diatribes on the part of critics. That is why the extremely bitter remark must be taken as the expression of a momentary pique, a resentment at some unexpected...