Word: bestowal
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...have put ourselves into the hands of the Lord, who I hope will bestow only good upon Spain...
...Anglo-Saxon lands. During Holy Year (1925) carefree Latins were to be seen daily flinging banana skins and chocolate wrappers upon the floor of St. Peter's, and greeting the Pope when he appeared with just such excited squeals and shrieks as a large family of happy children bestow upon their temporal father...
...Corporations." Premier Mussolini created last week, and announced that he would probably bestow upon himself, a new Cabinet title: Minister of Corporations...
...Suppose, for example, that John Cadwallader Grimshaw, having accumulated wealth and feeling a surge of generosity, decides to do something for his university. He has, let us say, half a million dollars to bestow. Does he present his half million to his Alma Mater without strings, to be used as the authorities now and in the future may determine? Probably not; for instinctively he feels that his money will lose its identity. It will be just another gift. Very humanly, he wants to set up something separate and visible, something which may be seen of men in the years...
...charm of an irresistible personality, smoldering through the evening, never revealing more than a flicker of its hidden fire, had burned home its deep impression. When she sang her most famous piece, "Violetera," where she goes among the audience with little violet bunches to offer musingly, withdraw capriciously, bestow impetuously, the starched and bejeweled Manhattanites arose and cheered. Her acknowledgment was?a quiet curtsy. More cheers. She sang an encore. The final "Brava!" The audience went home to talk it over, a new fad that promises to last weeks after Meller's departure...