Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cancellation of their "gold clause." Up from a Labor bench popped Sir Stafford Cripps. "This is the first time," he shouted, "that the Government have sought to convince themselves by ingenious arguments that we ought to pay more than we owe! If the Exchequer is going to be generous, I suggest that there are many worthier recipients of charity-such as the unemployed-than wealthy bondholders...
...Post climbed into his big white-&-purple Lockheed monoplane Winnie Mae and roared away from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., on his second flight around the world. Two years ago with Navigator Harold Gatty, he made an 8½-day record which he now proposed to beat by a generous margin. He was flying alone this time, but with a Sperry automatic pilot and a directional radio. Through fog, heavy clouds and snow, Pilot Post, robot & radio cut a superbly accurate course to Berlin in the phenomenal time of 25 hr. 45 min. The slowness of mechanics at Tempelhof Airdrome...
...supply sergeant, later a major in the Ordnance Department.) He married Sarah Cantine Shrady, daughter of a doctor, had two children, Edwin Jr. (killed in a hunting accident, 1917) and Frank Miller Gould. In later life he became like his equally conservative sister Helen (Mrs. Finley J. Shepard) a generous charitarian, particularly towards children. Yet for all the model, industrious life he led, his years were troubled by the vagaries of the many persons in whose veins flowed the blood of his famed father. His brothers and sisters, save for Helen, all insisted on marrying actresses or noblemen -generally more...
...social service, music, peace. Cultural Mr. Bok founded and conducted his American Foundation, gave yearly prizes for outstanding service to the city. In Philadelphia Mrs. Bok founded and still heads the Curtis Institute of Music. She is chairman of the opera, director of the orchestra association, and a generous donor to Philadelphia museums and charities. The empire left by Cyrus Curtis was as brilliant socially as it was professionally and financially...
STRANGER'S RETURN-Phil Stong-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Only Iowans can properly judge how truly Author Stong's 14th novel* mirrors Iowa life, but any hayseed can tell that Author Stong has seen some strongly improbable cinemas. Author Stong, however, has plentifully seasoned this fare with generous helpings of sardonic Iowa humor. Grandpa Storr, a cross between Falstaff and King Lear, talked like Mark Twain in unexpurgated mood. His language and actions were equally offensive to his household, consisting of: his nephew's wife (wicked), his stepdaughter (foolish), her husband (weak). They sat around like jackals waiting...