Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Counting among their number the most venerable and many of the most important of our universities, they have owed their power to assemble great bodies of scholars, to create great libraries and laboratories and museums, very largely to the gifts of generous benefactors, often in the form of legacies. If the present tendency to excessive taxation of personal income persists, or increases, as it may, and if this be coupled with further assault by inheritance taxes upon testamentary estates, the two largest sources of income for these institutions will almost inevitably dry up or, in any case, be gravely impaired...
...keep them from squawking, to prevent the abolition of bread cards from starting a revolution, there was only one thing to do: raise wages. Solemnly last week the Central Executive Committee raised, effective Jan. 1 the wages of millions of good Soviet proletarians, upped pensions and even scholarships. In generous mood it also upped the price the State pays farmers for grain...
...nature-loving W. H. Hudson he says: "The only living creatures he hated were full-feeders, publishers, stoats, weasels, and ferrets." George Moore's "was not a generous mind, but though full of treacheries to friendship it was unwavering in strict loyalty to itself." Katherine Mansfield, "a charming, pathetic figure," had a talent that was "not . . . robust . . . and it was overweighted by an impulsive admiration for the tales of Tchehov." To his much-maligned friend Hugh Walpole he gives the Swinnertonian accolade of "professional novelist." Bertrand Russell's cold logic irritates Swinnerton who says: "The suggestion that...
...Miss Davis had nothing to do with the game's outcome. As evidence, I bring forward the fact that three of our four most effective backs are notoriously girl-shy, and that one of the three scored four touchdowns and fumbled not once all afternoon. Had even the generous lady's name been whispered in the dressing-room, I feel certain that his legs would have lagged into the line and his nervousness have translated itself into fumbles; neither trouble appeared...
Corot's life was a model of peaceful, unexciting bourgeois comfort. When he was an oldster he was kindly, simple, generous to charities and other painters. He once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a 10-year 1,000-franc annuity instead. Dealers took advantage of his sliding scale of prices whereby he charged the rich much, the poor little. Paris knew him and loved him as le bonhomme Corot, a brawny celibate who in his youth could and did knock a peasant down with his fist...