Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down as a 5-to-1 shot, made Pompeius and Halcyon favorites. The start of the race decided its finish. Away at the barrier shot a bay gelding named Debenture with a pretty brunette in black & white silks on his back. The rider was Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond. With a generous lead to start, she rode Debenture hard to win by two lengths over Mrs. "Jock" Whitney on Range Finder, Mrs. Barney Balding finished third on Harold E. Talbott's Kummel. Favorites Halcyon and Pompeius gallumped in the ruck...
...carry out these principles will not bankrupt your Government. It is my hope that in so far as justice concerns those whose disabilities are, as a matter of fact, of War service origin, the Government will be able to extend even more generous care than is now provided...
...Legion accepted this Roosevelt doctrine with good grace. It realized that its demands for prepayment of the Bonus and an over-generous pension policy had caused it to lose caste. Now, in its own words, it was out to "resell itself to the country" as a good citizen...
...dismayed by French Professor Faÿ's sympathetic disclosure of the public goings-on of Franklin's favorite (legitimate) grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache. Few U. S. schoolboys have ever heard of Benny Bache, whom Biographer Faÿ describes as "the most outspoken, the most reckless, the most generous, and the most neglected" figure of his day. In this authoritative but racily written biography Author Faÿ takes the lid off a period of U. S. history that has long been simmering in academic ovens, dishes it up with spicy Gallic sauce...
...comes to educating the U. S. Child, the national government in the person of Commissioner of Education George Frederick Zook is a Dutch uncle who can give advice but no cash (TIME, Sept. 18). But when the U. S. Child needs food, clothing or shelter the Government is a generous, ingenious New England Auntie, with Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins acting the part. U. S. Children's Bureau investigators last week told her that perhaps 6,000,000 wretched U. S. children were beginning school undernourished. Miss Perkins at once summoned a conference of doctors, dietitians, educators and sociologists...