Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...torn Spain became a mere spectator last week as both belligerent armies virtually halted their small-scale war to watch the deepening European crisis. Leftist authorities believed that both sides in Spain would be weakened by a general European war, the Rightists because Germany and Italy would withdraw their generous aid from Generalissimo Franco, the Leftists because not only would they have little chance of receiving further Soviet aid, but Britain and other maritime powers would commandeer for their own use the tramp steamers which now run food and gasoline to Barcelona and Valencia. Leftists believed, however, that they would...
...ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY-Edited by Selden Rodman-Random House ($3). A generous assortment of modern verse, with biographical notes on all the writers represented, and an enthusiastic if somewhat cockerel-sure introduction to contemporary poetics-all aimed to give readers a leg-up on Pegasus. Most readers will like Editor Rodman and his broad-backed horse...
...City of 12,000 Friendly Folks." C. I. O. workers in the Maytag plant took a 10% pay cut, gave up their 13-week strike and returned to work. But the spirit with which they returned was not what Father Maytag had fostered with good pay and generous gifts. They went back with a gripe against Son & Heir Elmer Henry Maytag and Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel...
...students of the University of Washington summer school had an experience: listening to the lectures of a small, swarthy painter, art historian, moralist, critic, ex-automobile racer named Amédée Ozenfant who was making his first U. S. visit. His shattered English made intelligible by generous gestures, abundant enthusiasm, Instructor Ozenfant impressed on them the message he has been preaching in Europe for 20 years: that great art realizes the constant elements in human experience...
...making gifts of broadcasting rights to F.T.R.D., authors have been equally generous. James Truslow Adams gave them his The Epic of America for an MBS series, Mary Roberts Rinehart her Tish stories for CBS broadcasting. Most lavish gift of all came from Medical Crusader Paul de Kruif, who has turned over his radio rights to Microbe Hunters, Hunger Fighters, Men Against Death, Why Keep Them Alive, The Fight for Life. Dramatization of all these books in order went into production this week, will be a CBS coast-to-coaster Thursday evenings at 8 beginning June 30. NBC's projected...