Word: genial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-sleeked motor purred into London last week, its hood piled high with sprays of lilac, armfuls of bluebells. As the car sped down Whitehall, slowed, turned into Downing Street, passing Londoners smiled at the genial Briton who beamed from the tonneau upon the world in general. It was like Premier Baldwin, the Londoners told each other, to go motoring in the country for a few days, recreate himself thoroughly, and then return to grapple with the coal strike, which continued last week despite the calling off of the great "general strike" (TIME...
After all, one cannot effect and certainly does not desire to find in the Lampoon the night-life brilliance and paid by the inch satire of the professional humorous publications. The Jester is a genial soul, his irony is gentle, hand-wrought, not cast, his fancies are his foibles and not his bread and butter. Life, especially college life, to him is a thing to be enjoyed, and not exploited. It, is possible, he has found through observation of his neighbors, to pass the time in all manner of absurdities, but he prefers to laugh and that late...
...Roberts' article of April 15 is open to the same criticism. I can sympathize with his point of view. Oxford is so vital, genial, and beautiful that few Americans with any sensibility can visit it without the feeling "Why cannot we have this in America?" That was how I felt after three weeks there, in the gorgeous summer...
...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY ? Ina Claire and her English assistants still entertaining agreeably in the genial history of stolen pearls...
There was a figure like an English country gentleman-Mr. George H. Doran. There was a firm-jawed, genial Virginian-John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co. There was a well-preserved gentleman of some 67 summers, upon whose watch-chain hung a small gold ivy leaf-Arthur Hawley Scribner, who with his older brother Charles has carried on the business begun by their father in 1846. The swarthy gentleman whose dress, manner and accent bespoke the complete cultured cosmopolite was Alfred A. Knopf, master of the coursing Borzoi hound; the handsome lady with him -Mrs. Knopf...