Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the most urbane was that of the London Morning Post, an extreme Conservative organ. It began by observing with satisfaction that the British Conservative Party has in fact introduced some measures more radical than most thus far sponsored by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Admitting the President to the generous Santa Claus fraternity of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the Morning Post declared, "When all allowances are made, Roosevelt may justly claim to have introduced a new principle of responsibility for individual welfare into American government and to have won widespread acceptance...
...literary free-for-all contradicted the legend with their autobiographies, offering three pictures of those ceaseless struggles that revolve around books and that are fought with the weapons of reviews, debates, lectures, gossip. Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote of his literary life with all the suavity and aplomb of a generous victor. Poet Edgar Lee Masters described his with all the bitterness of admitted defeat. Novelist Frank Swinnerton described some staggering setbacks with the doggedly hopeful air of a championship contender who does not know he has already been knocked out several times...
Commenting on Day's work in that position, Professor Taussig declared that "he took a leading part in bringing about the discriminating and generous use of the funds of the Foundation for promoting research in all directions. His experience was of a kind to qualify him for the university presidency, and his friends are not surprised that he has become head of Cornell. All who are in touch with higher education in this country can congratulate him and the University...
...GRATEFUL TO YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS TELEGRAM AND I AM CONFIDENT THAT ALL OF US AMERICANS WILL NOW PULL TOGETHER FOR THE COMMON GOOD. I SEND YOU EVERY GOOD WISH...
...index of Recovery, U. S. Steel's dividend policy may have been distorted by the new Federal tax on undistributed profits, a measure calculated to spur any directorate to generous treatment of stockholders. What was significant was that U. S. Steel's directors had the means with which to be generous. In the past five years the net result of U. S. Steel's operations was a loss of $132,000,000. In announcing the dividend action Chairman Myron Charles Taylor reported that U. S. Steel's profits for the third quarter of 1936 were...