Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...antiFascists then exiled upon blistering, volcanic islands off the coast of Sicily. Acutely sensible of the sufferings of others, she was moved to intercede with the Signor Benito Mussolini. Soon it became known that some at least of the 600 exiles would be released. Last week a round, generous 300 were allowed to return to their homes. Among them were seven onetime deputies, two priests, numerous journalists...
...mouth of a gift horse, but to insist on an X-ray of the molars. But the swimming-pool gymnasium situation is so typical of the exception that this comment is offered with no stinting of gratitude, but rather as a plea for an earlier availability of a generous gift...
Although the family which offered prayer at Lequeitio was thus in far from happy circumstances, the children could look back upon a Christmas which was as happy as kindly King Alfonso XIII of Spain could make it. He, generous, had sent numerous gifts even more costly than those contained in 38 large chests of presents despatched from Hungary by loyal "subjects" of "King Otto...
...Banker Lewis Eugene Pierson of Manhattan, announced- that more than three-fourths of all U. S. Chamber men* believed the Federal Government should bear the entire cost of Mississippi flood control. In his message to Congress, President Coolidge had mentioned 80% of flood control costs as a more-than-generous portion for the Federal Government to bear...
Foreign Relations. We are friendly once more with Mexico. We have straightened out Nicaragua. China, "that unhappy country," will be a problem indefinitely. We can afford to be patient, generous, liberal. "Proposals for promoting the peace of the world will have careful consideration. But we are not a people who are always seeking for a sign. . . . The heart of the Nation is more important than treaties...