Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to cut Snyder down a little, lift Bowles to a bigger, better job, settle the steel strike with a price increase of around $5 a ton, give Bowles full authority to hold the line in the future. Another report: Paul Porter, the towering (6 ft. 4 in.) and genial Kentuckian who is now chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, would succeed Chet Bowles as administrator...
...rumpled, just-fed bear, he backslapped Vishinsky and horsed him around for the photographers. Vishinsky loved it; never was there a more eloquent manifestation of that everpresent, always-pathetic Russian longing to "belong." A little later Bevin came upon Vishinsky and Iranian Ambassador Seyed Hassan Tagizadeh in close, genial conversation. Bevin chortled: "That's right, boys, make peace now." Said Vishinsky, smiling: "We'll make such a good peace that you'll bring it up at the Security Council...
Norman Makin is a teetotaling Methodist lay preacher at home but he gave his guests wine and brandy while drinking orange juice himself. All week Norman Makin, chairman of the Security Council of the United Nations Organization, was a busy, genial host. Even so, he had an uneasy time...
...performs against the backdrop, of a well-proportioned cast. Senator Langdon's genial culture is made to evolve into inbred race hate. Cousin Roy Maxwell, sensitive only to political breezes, declaims the rationale of the modern South to Howard Morrick, enlightened Yankee author, and defender of Nevvy's naturalness, which alone succeeds in surviving its environment. Brett's intelligence and experience with unprejudiced white folk in European towns leads to actions which arouse in his mother, Bella, the Langdon housekeeper, a fearful wrath at his flaunting the law that "White is White, and Black is Black...
...Wilmington last week a memorial exhibition of 66 Wyeth illustrations and descriptive paintings was on view. Neighbors from nearby Chadds Ford, where he had lived, came over to take a look and to remember their genial, hard-working friend. They figured his kids might carry on. Three of Wyeth's five children, along with son-in-law Peter Kurd, are artists; son Andrew (28) had already had five one-man shows in Manhattan...