Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three stories in the issue, the best is definitely Denis Fodor's "Herr Zipfl's Revolt," a tale of the Bemelmans type but infinitely less genial: Herr Zipfl is the Burgermeister of a Russian-controlled Austrian town. Behind a mask of craven geniality, he is rather resentful of the fact that the Russian military is more interested (justifiably, I think) in his dog, than in him. The plot, the ideas, and the characters of "Herr Zipfl's Revolt" emerge quite naturally and aimply from the relentless simplicity of Mr. Fodor's style...
...never underrate opponents," the genial lightweight coach declares. Even though his varsity eight last year trimmed every other 150-pound boat in the world to rank as unofficial champion and match the Varsity heavies' title, Haines is making no predictions for the coming campaign. "We'll have some tough races this spring and how they'll come out nobody knows...
...hearty laugher, he has a quiet humor and a sudden wide grin. Careless of his dress, he likes what his family calls "all-purpose" pants-he sometimes wears the same pair to the Senate, to the golf links, and to dinner. In private, he is a genial and pleasant conversational ist; on the Senate floor he is all business-cold, aggressive, persistent...
...saved by what Edmund Wilson calls Mencken's genial and acrid relish for the flavor of American life. Even more helpful are the odd anecdotes scattered through it, possessing the sort of owlish, stubborn humor that comes from wringing a subject dry and then wringing it some more. "In late years," says Mencken, "it is me has even got support from eminent statesmen. When, just before Roosevelt II's inauguration day in 1933, the first New Deal martyr, the Hon. Anton J. Cermak, was shot ... he turned to Roosevelt and said, 'I'm glad...
...House has somehow acquired a Rio Grande reputation, perhaps originated in the interest of the genial Housemaster Clarence H. Haring '07, Bliss Professor of Latin American History, who at one time collected South Americans with data on the Spanish colonization of Peru...