Word: genial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Welcome from New Jersey to the Guthrie girls' basketball team, champions of the West!" So said George S. Silzer, genial Governor of New Jersey...
...present Miss Ferber is living in Manhattan and working on a play with George Kaufman. She has taken a fairly long lease on an apartment which overlooks Central Park. There she lives with her mother, a genial, happy person who takes much delight in entertaining Miss Ferber's friends...
...Paris," he said, "a few hundred years ago." He was a genial liar. There was a pause. He broke it quietly...
Lanky Havers, "nervous as a hen," missed easy puts. Genial, confident Sarazen drove almost as far as the hard-hitting Briton, knocked out six birdies in the last day's play...
Gypsy Jim. The dulcet diction of Leo Carrillo romantically implores his audience to have faith, that it may automatically acquire fortune. Mr. Carillo plays a genial young millionaire whose fancy is best pleased by wandering about the world disguised as a gypsy and doing good. He appears in a high yellow make-up and exotic attire. His peregrinations lead him to the threshold of a home heavy with failure. The father is a lawyer with no clamor of clients at his doorstep; the daughter, an authoress of many manuscripts but no publisher; the mother, steeped in sorrow for a buried...