Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...close of the year 1706, it is a very sprightly reflection of the manners of the time. The plot which deals with the adventures of two embarrassed gentlemen who go down into the country disguised as master and servant is most humorously worked out in a bright and genial...
...Pelleastres that gathered more than a decade ago in the Opera Comique would find now only a timid enemy. J. D. Austin's "Debussy and his Critics," therefore, is pertinent rather, as an eloquent plea for fair-mindedness in criticism than as an apologia for the piquant and genial author...
Professor Pierce was one of the most genial men and one of the most conscientious teachers imaginable, and he was a great scholar. He was one of the few men qualified to hold in modern days, as he did hold, a professorship of both mathematics and experimental physics. Professor Byerly, his colleague in the Department of Mathematics, once said of him that he knew more mathematics than any one else in the Department of Mathematics and more physics than any one else in the Department of Physics. And there was no one to gainsay this statement or to take offense...
...gathering at Phillips Brooks House was devised. Its essential spirit is informality and agreeable fellowship, for which Thanksgiving time has come to stand. It is a place where men can go to meet their comrades in misfortune and turn part of the day, at least into a time of genial cheer and friendly entertainment. No feeling of embarrassment or reticence should keep any man from the gathering; it is intended for every Harvard man who needs it to fill up his day. In the past it has, and tomorrow it will, make something more out of Thanksgiving day for those...
...much criticism for alleged reckless operating--was a physician very conservative himself in the matter of operations. This conservatism was a dominant mental trait, of a piece with his rather reserved personality, under which, however, for those who know him well, flowed a vein of genial humor. It was often remarked that he and the late Dr. Maurice Richardson were the close friends they were "by the law of opposites...