Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Matthiessen's exposition of difficult passages is always plausible, even if one may dissent from his opinion in specific places. He is perhaps over-generous to his friends for their in- genious interpretations. It is somewhat disconcerting to come so often to acknowledgement of indebtedness for conjectures. At the final tally, it must be admitted that into his book Professor Matthiessen has distilled the essence of all previous criticism of Eliot. Sometimes the distillation is effected by contradictions, of opponents, sometimes by amplifications of small hints in other writers, but always it is undertaken by a relentless and remorseless...
...white planter who occasionally passes a night with his black housekeeper, Cora Lewis (Rose McClenndon). Playwright Hughes lays claim to serious consideration by his perceptive presentation of Norwood and the Negroes on his place. No Simon Legree, the wealthy widower seems to treat his dusky employes fairly, is downright generous with Cora and her family. In turn, the Negroes give Norwood that queerly affectionate and somewhat frightened obedience expected and received by Southern whites. Without nosing it as a universal occurrence, Playwright Hughes reveals one dramatic consequence of this interracial situation in its full frightfulness. Accepted neither by blacks...
...Administration's request after concessions made to them in the disputed Section 7A of the late NRA. With the early show and a pre-Christmas motor boom, fourth quarter sales may reach 900,000. Forecasts of 1936 production range from a modest 4,000,000 to a generous 4,500,000. The industry increased production 45% in 1934 over 1933, and will make nearly a 40% increase in 1935 over...
Last week the genial, generous Irishman arranged to buy for $130,000 another Stock Exchange seat to present to his son William on his 21st birthday. Father Meehan also got a present-a summons from the Securities & Exchange Commission to show cause why he should not be suspended from all U. S. exchanges in which he holds memberships. SEC had reason to suspect that Mike Meehan was up to his old tricks, this time not in Radio but in Bellanca Aircraft Corp. listed on the New York Curb Exchange...
...memorable for its portraits of celebrities, particularly that of Marcel Proust. Marie Scheikévitch knew Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, was on intimate terms with Jules Lemaître and other are eminant, but her friendship with Proust was particularly close. She presents him as warm, readily animated, generous, possesing a gift for mimcry. She says that after he had been malicious about some mutual acquaintance he would return the next day and compensate for his malice by reviewing the individual's good qualities. The idiosyncracies that others have ascribed to Proust- his practice of attending parties bundled...