Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presentation to the University of Wisconsin, generous Alumnus Davies is bringing along with him his latest art purchases from Moscow, 14 extremely rare icons described by the famed Tretyakov Picture Gallery's official experts as "constituting perhaps the most valuable collection of icons now in private hands...
...Physarum polycephalum, was successfully cultured indoors by Dr. Frank Leslie Howard of Rhode Island State College. Later he turned his molds and his methods over to Dr. Seifriz. Ever since his student days at Johns Hopkins and in England, Germany, Switzerland and France, William Seifriz had hankered for generous supplies of "naked proto-plasm." Physarum polycephalum filled the bill. In a lyrical moment Dr. Seifriz called it a "great big glorious handful...
...Editor Morley included George Ade ("Never put off until Tomorrow what should have been Done Early in the Seventies"), many newspaper rhymesters, Eliot, Lenin, Pound. Marx ("The only part of the so-called national wealth that actually enters into the collective possessions of modern peoples is their national debt"). Generous to his colleagues on The Saturday Review of Literature, he gives two pages to William Rose Benet, almost three pages to Stephen Vincent Benet, a half-page each to Editor Bernard De Voto and ex-Editor Henry Seidel Canby, a page to himself. The Morley Bartlett includes enough contemporary wisecracks...
...dividing the court favor with the American West and that of the city with Reynolds. Among others he painted, sometimes with brushes on sticks six feet long, Sheridan, Burke, Johnson, Franklin, Canning, Lady Montagu, Clive, and Blackstone. Like his more than 300 paintings his was a warm personality--lively, generous, natural...
Reason for this apparent slight to the name of the late, socially prominent George Alexander McKinlock, onetime utility executive and a generous Northwestern benefactor, was quickly explained...