Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second Act. Nina, not now so normal, has tried to dodge her grief with martyrdom. Believing she must help war cripples to happiness she lives with them. Dr. Ned Darrell, unconsciously in love with her, arranges to have her marry Sam Evans, genial weakling, to afford her anchorage. Not loving Sam she consents, thinking (still the martyr) she can beautify his life and ease her own sorrow with babies...
...word about that great and grossly libeled man, the Mayor of Chicago. If I were not a man of the world and experienced in politics I would have expected to meet a tough and a roughneck. Instead I was received and honored by a great big, kindly, genial, American, so bubbling over with plans for the betterment of his city that he talked about hardly anything but the plan to connect Chicago with the sea and make her America's greatest city...
...Jesse Holman Jones. In Houston lives a ponderous, genial, whitehaired personage, know to Houstonians as a timber magnate who moved down from Dallas 20 years ago to open banks & bond houses, build hotels, publish the Houston Chronicle, etc., etc. He looks, acts and is one of the richest men in all rich Texas?Jesse Holman Jones. In Who's Who, Mr. Jones calls himself, "builder, financier." Among nationally experienced Democrats, he has come to be known as a politician, almost as well known as that other Texan, Col. Edward Mandell House of the Wilson regime...
...Texas Steer. Will Rogers has become an international humorist. His genial or acidulous lucubrations were once heard, between twirls of a lariat, from the stage of the Ziegfeld Follies; they have since been telegraphed to the New York Times from many odd corners of the globe; they have been accepted with positive pleasure in capitals of Europe. All this has not, obviously, made him proud. Recently, between the moments when a motion picture camera was clicking at his pleasant homely face, a stenographer trailed Funnyman Rogers around the Hollywood studios of the First National Picture Co., jotting down unostentatiously...
...first two, there was little to be said. It was true that John P. Morgan, the big, impressive, genial 61-year-old, Episcopal banker, whose name in every language is a synonym for the power of wealth, had never before accepted a principal office in an enterprise which his banking house had financed.* Many people have observed the increasing potency of silver-haired, 65-year-old, Catholic James Augustine Farrell, whose father was a New Haven shipowner...