Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston audiences brainless? (Enter Mr. Dixon's practical nature.) Oh, they're not so stupid, and a stupid audience is probably the most painful thing I know. (Mr. Dixon's frankness returns.) No, I should say that the Army intelligence tests are too generous." Here the conversation followed a tangent into the merits of a Harvard education, but the actor's knowledge of literature exceeded that of the reporter, who departed, leaving the former before his glaring mirror, which might not have been as brief as the candle...
...Spain it is yet a new and exciting thing. Just a year ago women suffrage was proclaimed, and today its proclaimed are aghast at the results; the hand that fed has been severely lacerated. In the full tide of political and psychological revolution the unqualified suffrage was bestowed by generous radical; in the recent elections to the Cortes a Conservative victory has been achieved through the solid vote of large blocs of the female population. Behind the defeat of the Socialist party appears to lurk the shadow of the Church, disestablished by the Revolution and the enemy of all Spanish...
...from a studio in the nearby National Museum Building will come another plaster figure to join the silent party. It will be a long-legged model probably dressed in Eleanor Blue and posed to suggest energy, cheer, simplicity. The face, which in the living original is dominated by a generous, tooth-filled mouth, receding chin and warm, humorous eyes, will be indistinguishable from the faces of all the other First Ladies. For Sculptor William H. Egberts of the Smithsonian avoids arguments with friends, relatives and the subjects themselves by giving all the Presidents' wives the face of Frances Pierce...
...some of the Houses the feeling has arisen that the House libraries should extend the customary overnight loan privilege to cover a more generous interval. The first practical stop taken in line with this feeling came recently when Adams House decided that unreserved fiction might be kept out by House members for a period as long as a week...
...court his three lawyers jostled each other in their efforts to be first to kiss his sunken cheeks and the close of Presiding Judge Panegyrakis' decision refusing extradition was lost in pandemonium. "I am very disappointed," said rueful Hunter Harness. "I am sorry for young Mr. Harness," cried generous Quarry Insull. "These Greek judges are ideal! I am more than satisfied. I shall stay here the rest of my life. Greece is a small but great country!" Back in Athens' Hotel Grande Bretagne, popular Guest Insull did not repeat the champagne celebration he staged last year when...