Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nikolai Lenin, Premier: Son of a noble, i.e., small hereditary landowner. Irreproachable morals. Strong character supplemented by feminine influence, particularly by his secretary, Fotiva, tall, dark, efficient woman of forty. He appears as the generous autocrat of Moscow. Amazing aptitude for detail. Behind a cold and calculating political mask, he hides a kind and gentle disposition. Every Soviet leader has "lost his head" at least once, except Lenin. Strives to westernize Russia...
...Norris can present a fine, moving, startlingly real picture of life. At her worst she becomes caught in describing the minutiae of daily routine. A blue pencil would greatly have improved Certain People of Importance. Possibly Mrs. Norris knows this now. She is working, in addition to her usually generous output of short novels and short stories, on a new long novel. It will be all about the Irish, not the Irish question, and by the time it is finished she will perhaps have learned not to tell us every piece of meat and every slice of vegetable that goes...
After a cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...
Chancellor Emeritus James R. Day of Syracuse University is dead. And with his death, endowed education (what The New York Call describes as "The Hire Learning"), is advanced to the center of the stage again. John D. Archbold, vice-president of the Standard Oil Company, was a generous benefactor of Syracuse. Chancellor Day of Syracuse was a vigorous and outspoken champion of the established " interests." It needed only a little mathematics to prove that Chancellor Day had been bought by "The Trusts"-so said the progressives...
...Child Memorial, have personal associations. It will be remembered that the philosopher Berkeley, after his ill-advised attempt to found a university in the Bermudas, left many of his books to Harvard as a pitiful reminder. And it was not so much John Harvard's money as his generous library that gave him title to be called the College's founder...