Word: genial
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When finally flushed from cover, 880 turned out to be a genial old junk dealer, a former Navy man who preferred printing up funds to collecting his pension because he felt he was saving the government money. Eight-eighty ran off his dollar bills on ordinary bond paper, using a tiny hand press which he affectionately called his rich Cousin Henry. He tried to make sure that no storekeeper would be stuck with his handmade currency more than once, and he spent the money, mainly, to entertain an adoring army of neighborhood children. By the time he was convicted...
...British radio, it bears the closest resemblance to U.S. network radio. The Light's Mrs. Dale's Diary has some of the flavor and all the popularity of The Aldrich Family; Have a Go! features a quiz master named Wilfred Pickles who resembles a more genial Groucho Marx; on such comedy shows as Educating Archie, Ray's a Laugh and Take It from Here, the labored pun flourishes even more richly than in the U.S. (sample: "What are we hunting for?" "Herd of deer, my lord." " 'Course I've heard of deer-big things like...
...tragic low. Then the senior U.S. officials in residence were a charge d'affaires and Colonel David Barrett, a famous "old China hand" who headed a staff of six military attaches including himself. Since then an American Minister, Karl Rankin, has taken over, a ruddy and genial man of stature and intelligence. In the seven weeks since he arrived, he has galvanized the listless diplomatic staff and earned the respect of Nationalist officialdom. Rear Admiral Harry Jarrett heads an enlarged staff of attach...
...mighty impressive one. Among the new New Schoolmen were courtly Albert Leon Guerard, 69, historian, biographer, critic (Art for Art's Sake), onetime professor of general literature at Stanford; fierce, fiery Thomas Reed Powell, 70, once Harvard Law School's top expert on the U.S. Constitution; genial, snow-haired Arnold Lucius Gesell, 70, pertinacious chronicler of child behavior (Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, etc.), former director of Yale's Clinic of Child Development; shy, spinsterish Cornelia Meigs, 65, biographer of Louisa May Alcott (Invincible Louisa) and professor of English composition at Bryn Mawr; Columbia...
Into the top operational job of expediting U.S. war production this week moved big, genial William Henry Harrison, 58, president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. As boss of the newly created National Production Authority, Harrison* has the massive job of determining, through priorities and allocations, who shall get what and how much of strategic and scarce materials, and what cuts shall be made in civilian production...