Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much more than could be made at law. So down among the bars where he sometimes caroused between bouts of terrific hard work, word was passed around that "Big Steve" was out for sheriff. The Buffalo Courier cried: "He is at the same time so true a gentleman, so generous, modest and lovable a man that we have never heard of anybody's envying him. . . . His very name is a host...
...strangest director-star relationship in the history of U. S. cinema. In a few months was brought about the transformation of Mrs. Sieber. From an awkward, frail girl, visibly awed by the new world into which fate had thrust her, she became the purveyor of calculated glamour, icy and generous by turns, distant, temperamental, mysterious. Part of this was the result of coaching by von Sternberg, part of it the changes in her own ego wrought by the amazing publicity campaign organized for her by Paramount. Before Morocco, her next picture, was released Hollywood gazed astonished at a series...
...hand in. He knew stinging poverty, quit college four years ago, worked as a gas station and cigar store attendant, attended night classes at DePauw now takes small part in re-making the world as is possible by but a Socialist. Still poor, James T. Farrell is charming, generous, and a clear thinking, clear seeing writers...
...return for Austrian and Hungarian recognition of the Ethiopian conquest, Count Ciano promised them a part in economic exploitation of the Empire. Il Duce was in a mood so generous that Austria was further compensated for the loss to her exporters inherent in Italy's devaluation of her currency (TIME, Oct. 12). Compensation was offered in the form of lowering Italian tariffs on items figuring largely in the exports of Austria...
Well might Playwright O'Neill have felt surprised at receiving this generous share of the dead Swedish dynamite inventor's money, along with the world's most coveted literary honor. As a rule the Swedish Academy scrupulously attempts to see that no one nation or branch of literature gets more than its share of Nobel Prizes. The literary prize was not awarded last year. Since 1930, therefore, it has been given just five times, twice to U. S. citizens (Sinclair Lewis, 1930; Eugene O'Neill, 1936), thrice to dramatists (John Galsworthy, 1932; Luigi Pirandello, 1934; Eugene...