Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Business & Pleasure. Wyoming basketball tradition encourages every kid in the state to hope for college and team. Thus youngsters work hard. But most of the credit belongs to genial ex-footballer Shelton, who knows the trick of getting both fun and science into the game. He shuns blackboard drills, sets no hard & fast training rules. Unlike some coaches, Shelton doesn't go overboard for elongated lads just because they are tall. Says he, "We try to get players who will fit our plan of offense rather than attempt to build plays around them." He never works the team more...
...Pope neglect the traditionally Protestant part of Europe. Britain's stocky, genial Bernard Griffin, 46, was the youngest cardinal appointed; Archbishop Johannes de Jong of Utrecht was the first Dutch diocesan to receive the red hat since the Reformation...
Perhaps the most glaring of these is the radical change in Father O'Malley. In "Going My Way" he was a genial but forceful ecclesiastical troubleshooter who reinforced a sagging church; in the sequel he is transformed into a jovial buffoon guilty of every imaginable blunder...
...TACA's Manhattan office, bulky, genial Ben Pepper leaned back comfortably in the red leather chair once reserved for Yerex and took charge of TACA's corporate and financial affairs. Soon a new president will be picked. Most likely candidates: Ben Pepper or Tom Hardin...
...late Robert Benchley makes a genial appearance in the film, but unhappily his lines were provided by someone less talented than Benchley at writing a Benchley role. The Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (played by Bill Goodwin) should be gratified by his screen portrait: he is pictured as handsome, witty, kindly, generous to a fault and extravagantly admired by all his own employes as well as by cafe society at large...