Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kind, Genial, Harmless Creatures ? Their Day Is Done
...discover the focal point of literary life in Chicago, that literary center of the middle-west, some say, indeed, of America, is a difficult task. Perhaps it is at the White Paper Club, where one finds genial Emerson Hough, active, white-haired, forward-looking rather than given to reminiscing, planning a fishing trip with enthusiasm! There is the office of Poetry, where sits the discoverer of many renowned American poets, Harriet Munroe, and where one may occasionally encounter Henry B. Fuller, one of the quietest and most significant figures in the progress of American letters. There is the University...
...reigning Amir, Amanullah Khan, recently on a visit to Jalalabad with his court, created a great sensation among his subjects. It was the first time that the Amir had visited this eastern city , and the people were curious to see the Afgan autocrat. They found him an industrious man, genial, active, simply dressed. The object of his visit is said to be to eradicate corruption from the public service...
...masterpieces of the great school of medieval counterpoint to compositions of the discordant moderns. Their program for last week embraced such different names as Palestrina, Pergolesi, Archangelsky. The director is Father Finn, choirmaster of New York's great church of the Paulist order. He is a fine, genial fellow, a learned musician and, one guesses, a lively hand with a pair of boxing gloves. He formed the chorus in the normal process of training a church choir of boys and men, and has schooled them to a high degree of expertness in the rare and difficult art of unaccompanied...
...after being told for the first time that he began life as a student of painting, lavished a for tune on a few exuberant weeks in Venice, and is a discerning judge of cocktails, tobacco, fabrics? Or in those of Hugh Walpole, when they discover that he is a genial and witty Englishman, with a pair of glasses on his nose and an admiration for Amer ica in general and for Jurgen and Seventh Heaven in particular? Reading a novel is, after all, like being told a story, except that you cannot see the teller. It is like a telephone...