Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quartet. The London String Quartet gave a concert in Manhattan last week and set out for the Pacific Coast where for two months it will be sponsored by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. most generous of chamber music patrons. The Londoners play bridge on the train when they can find a fourth; long John Pennington (first violinist) refuses to play. Because constant rehearsing and traveling force them to see so much of one another they try to stay at different hotels...
...Restaurants filled their cash registers with bales of signed lunch checks. Food dealers, both wholesale and retail, were generous to the end in extending credit. A threat to Detroit's milk supply existed in the inability of farmers to collect enough cash to buy feed for their cattle...
...forensic ability, without going through at course in Public Speaking, the Varsity Debating Council offers little appeal. The organization is decidedly hampered by the lack of any permanent home or the use of any satisfactory auditorium. Although the Corporation gives the Council two hundred dollars annually, the sum, while generous, fails to cover much more than administrative expenses; consequently the activities of the Council are, for the most part, limited to Boston, and its vicinity. The fact that the Debating Council, unlike many other extra-curricular activities, offers no social advantages detracts from its appeal to a large group...
...formally from the stage, but after Charles took up with her she acted less & less. Though the King always had more than one mistress at a time Nell was apparently not jealous. She made the most of the princely presents he gave her: a house in Pall Mall, a generous allowance, two sons. The King found her good company and never stayed away for long. Her two principal rivals were Italian Hortense Mancini, French Louise de Quérouailles. With Louise, an aristocrat who constantly tried to come the great lady over her, Nell never hit it off very well...
...book funds have come in this year, but the report points out that the generous assistance of many donors has done much this year in building up the collections