Word: naturedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Austria's Foreign Minister Leopold Figl had gone out of his way to say that Austrian independence was "particularly due to American help." When Molotov arrived from Warsaw (see above), all grinny with benevolence, Figl greeted him at the airport with a good-natured but double-edged reference to...
But pleasure is precisely what Man of Letters Louis Kronenberger (The Thread of Laughter, The Pleasure of Their Company) can find in books, along with enlightenment and instruction. The Republic of Letters is a collection of literary essays that presents writers as exciting companions rather than as cadavers for hypercritical...
It also means they can tip the scullers over twice. The river boats, for that is what they are called on the Mississippi, have a ratio of almost two children to every adult. Since there are no rocks on the ship, they are very good-natured children.
Milliet, in Aries in 1888 to rest up from a campaign in Indo-China, met Van Gogh in the town and posed for him now and then. In return, Van Gogh taught him a little about drawing and perspective. The artist was "an odd, good-natured man," Milliet recalled. "He...
Smiling, venturing a word or two of high-school Spanish, and shaking thousands of hands, Vice President Richard Nixon last week turned his tour of Central America into an unaffected show of friendship among backyard neighbors. To the official ceremonials that stretched his days to 16 and 18 hours, he...