Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marry him because it might spoil their friendship, and Jane Matthews (Jean Arthur), who refused because she was in love with his best friend, are shown as childishly innocent, this bow to censorship does not seriously impair the picture's conception of its hero as a vain, generous, clever, sentimental bon vivant, capable of committing suicide by eating too many oysters. It is a warm and genial period piece which reaches its maximum distinction in that scene in which Edward Arnold, making the most of one of the fattest parts that it has ever been the good fortune...
...even have time to think up an intelligent publicity campaign. First described thoughtlessly as a rival to MGM's Greta Garbo, whom she resembles less than anyone else on the screen, Luise Rainer was next advertised as the private discovery of William Powell, because he was generous enough, when the picture was completed, to recommend her for co-star billing. A student of archeology, sculpture and the ballet, Miss Rainer lives in Santa Monica...
...Suppose that it be made the normal thing that nine out of ten (making a far too-generous allowance of 10% for crackpots, misfits, melancholies) of each year's ordinands shall pledge themselves not to marry for two (or four to six) years, making a special offering to God of the gold of those years, and going with a willing mind wherever a bishop sends them. Let their pay in money be ... no more than sufficient for their own actual needs, for food, shelter, and especially boots...
...Excerpts: "You do solemnly swear . . . That you will be loyal to the Profession of Medicine and just and generous to its members; That you will lead your lives and practice your art in uprightness and honor; That into what ever house you shall enter, it shall be for the good of the sick to the utmost of your power, you holding yourselves far aloof from wrong, from corruption, from the tempting of others to vice; That you will exercise your art solely for the cure of your patients, and will give no drug, perform no operation for a criminal purpose...
Such pupils remain gratefully loyal to Dr. Libman. Generous and modest, he finances able youngsters in medical schools, in research laboratories. He gets them paying fellowships, good hospital appointments. To celebrate his 60th birthday in 1932, former pupils wrote special scientific articles for a homage volume. They got learned colleagues and friends to contribute: Nobel Prizemen Alexis Carrel and Albert Einstein, Dr. George Richards Minot (who later received a Nobel Prize), the late great Dr. William Henry Welch (1849-1934). The salutes to Dr. Libman filled three Libman Anniversary Volumes. Dr. Welch, who wrote the introduction, needed ten epithets...