Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assyrians themselves. Many a time during the past eleven years of semi-national rule they proved to be a veritable menace to the national interests of Irak. Notwithstanding the fact that most of them do not originally belong to Irak, the government of Irak has been very generous and kind to all of them. She offered them land and money, but a section of them refused to settle down or give up arms. Armed, they cross the boundary to Syria. The French authorities in Syria take away the arms from some of them, then after some consideration they give them...
...troubled by pecuniary anxiety. Under the terms of his will Dr. Loeb has provided a sum of $300,000 (*60,000 at par) to endow an institution to be called the Loeb Classical Library Foundation to carry on the noble work of which he was the originator and most generous patron. The foundation is to be placed under the supervision of three trustees, and when the classical library has been completed the income of the endowment is to be devoted to the encouragement of archaeology and classical studies without distinction as to sex, race, nationality, colour, or creed. Through this...
...taking the liberty of sending you the portrait, express prepaid, and one of Mr. Rockefeller's ties which represents the shade of blue which he has been in the "habit of wearing, and if it is your pleasure to add this improvement to your already generous contribution if you will then return the portrait, express collect, we will send you our thoughts respecting the picture as a whole. "Our friends think that if the lines of the coat were a little more clearly defined. . . ." At the bottom of the letter was a tracing of a stickpin with the note...
Tired of the track, Rufus Barlow retired 15 years ago, bought a little farm at Brissac. To one thing he could never grow accustomed. Spending all his life in the company of wealthy and generous sports- men, the closefisted money grubbing of French peasants infuriated him. It was his boast that there was no indignity that a French peasant would not accept for $100. Dying, he proceeded to prove...
...improve with the years, but most writers, after they have passed middle age, do not. The transformation of generous talents into sere opinionatedness is a recurrent phenomenon each generation recognizes, but only in its predecessors. Authoress Gale, no ten-talent writer, still possesses the tenderness of her youth, but it has grown a little mushy, auntly sentimental. Practice makes pat and Authoress Gale knows better than ever how to put her gentle, everyday stories together. Some of them...