Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easily able to mirror the gentle, green elevations of ground which the Berkshire dwellers call hills, and which enthusiastic tourists like to call mountains. As gentle as the hills, as placid as the river, the Berkshire villages rise to break the pleasant monotony of the landscape. Their generous houses, most white and clean, front on broad streets with here and there a stretch of New England common. Their lawns slope gracefully to the languid river. Such a village is Stockbridge...
...District Attorney Monaghan was describing "Boo Boo" Hoff without naming him-and he was-his "giant spider" simile was harsh but not inept. "Boo Boo" is a comfortably built gentleman with charming manners. He has a generous, thoughtful disposition. His taste in dressing gowns and girl friends is catholic. He is a born promoter, especially of versatile night clubs and small-time prize fights. He has at least $1,000,000 and likes to surround himself with strong-armed young men. The young men are pugilists professionally and "Boo Boo's" boxing stable has often contained upwards...
...health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally popular, often received bottles of whiskey soon after they register at their Philadelphia hotels. There is never any explanation of these presents, but they have tended to increase the Hoff reputation for generosity. Few "regular...
...dances at all functions-motormen's, modists', the Social Register's. His grandfather, the late William Walter Phelps, was (1889-93) U. S. Ambassador to Germany.* The grandson is an ambassador of the sidewalks to the agronomists and small-towners at Albany-fat-faced, loud, generous, shrewd, a smoker of cigars at every waking moment. He professes not even to afford a motorcar in which to battle Matron Pratt...
...very generous of you, my dear Governor, to thus offer to 'permit' me to take that line in the meeting, but I assure you that I have not heretofore been 'embarrassed' on meeting you, and do not think that I will suffer thus when we meet face to face with this discussion, though I well know your great prowess in debate, and am also aware of my own limitations and defects. ... I venture to remind you that you are not yet President...