Word: genial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sightseers know that tong means "Parlor." The implication of the word is a genial one, implying conversation, compromise, good cheer. Tongs were originally started as protective trade organizations. They became, by degrees, political bodies?compact, powerful, antagonistic. Thus was the word perverted. Now, when that word appears in print, it clangs like a terrible bronze bell summoning unseen hordes to war, sounding the knell of many pathetic, dingy little men who will die by violence, in secret places...
...British" and "Kill all foreigners," if some other Chinese left the British Legation at Peking last week because they feared for their lives at the hands of angry Chinese students, in Washington Mr. Sze showed not a trace of hostility on his face. He was smiling in his customary genial way, quite sure that China was to receive at last the attention for which these many years she has been clamoring...
Robert Jr. has his father's chubby face. Philip has the shock of hair. Robert Jr. is a practical politician, knows how all the wheels go 'round, the genial type who gains the personal liking of all who have to do with him. Philip is an orator with so many of his father's traits and tricks of speech as to appear almost a mimick. Combined, they make an almost exact replica of their father...
...only learned students of art knew to be in existence." In 1908 he formed the Beecham Symphony Orchestra; turned soon after to opera, for which, from 1909 to 1919, he did more than any man in London. In 1915, he became conductor of the London Philharmonic Society. Spruce, brisk, genial, he is a good conductor, cultured impresario. He gave enormous amounts to Music, but, despite the immense wealth that his father left him, he was forced to retire temporarily in 1919 to untangle his finances, which were in a precarious condition...
Premier Stanley Baldwin rose from his seat on the Government bench, swept the House with his genial eyes, told it "not to get rattled." He explained that part of the increase in unemployment was due to a change in the law, and asked the House to remember that the pre-War average of emigration had fallen from 200,0000 to 130,000. The situation was black, he admitted it, but against the black spots he asked the House to put "the general and, on the whole, progressive improvement in trade that is more related to personal consumption-clothes, boots, shoes...