Word: jovially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Horner was known to one-&-all in Illinois as an honest, jovial old baldicoot who loved movies, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and his job as Governor. In November 1938, good Mr. Horner fell ill, straightway became a man of mystery. In the last 17 months probably no more than a dozen people have seen him. His illness has been variously reported: a stroke, a second stroke, a third, a blood clot, a heart spasm, cancer of the throat, pneumonia, diabetes, paralysis...
...best in the world. When Bandmaster Sousa quit to conduct his own celebrated outfit, the Marine Band's baton fell to an Italian named Francesco Fanciulli, who led it for five years. Since then it has had only two conductors, fiddle-playing, German-born William H. Santelmann and jovial, bespectacled, U. S.-born Captain Taylor Branson...
Present head of the firm is Solomon's son, plump, jovial Abraham Livingston ("A. L.") Gump, who resembles one of his own Buddhas. He took over in 1906, just before the earthquake. Same year he hired Oriental Expert Daniel Newell, rebuilt the store and its reputation for Oriental art together. Now nearly blind, A. L. is still a shrewd judge of jade by touch. He knows the store so well that he can guide important visitors around and comment on each object, without giving away his handicap...
...suave German diplomat who once served in Washington. Also, elaborate trays of hors d'oeuvres, dinner of soup, roast chicken, vegetables, stewed fruit, coffee, and stout German protestations that such was the regular fare. In the U. S. party, enigmatic, icy, shiny-domed Sumner Welles; black-haired, jovial Chief of the European Affairs Division and crack career Diplomat Jay Pierrepont Moffat; quiet Lucius Hartwell Johnson, onetime Welles secretary newly recruited for this trip. Lights were bright behind the curtained windows. A stop at Stuttgart, 50 miles from the front-the huge station was ghostly under dim lights...
Instructive were these meetings of the real owners of the corporation with their management. Most of the stockholders sidled in, a little embarrassed, more than a little flattered when jovial Chairman Bell shook them by the hand. He tried to make them feel at home, showed them lantern slides of directors and executives who were not present, as well as of General Mills' mills, process, products. The company comptroller explained to them a simplified balance sheet ("Liabilities-What...