Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard has always been acknowledged as being one of the few universities in this country where the majority of the men had a more or less serious view of their scholastic work. The conversations of Harvard men have always been tinged with a generous amount of talk about their studies. For this reason they have often been characterized by some as "grinds", by others as dilletantes. But, unconcerned with comments, they have consistently maintained this attitude...
...which is quite different in character and takes place after the war in a private office at Sheffield, lives up to the preceding one, the Prologue and Act I lagged rather badly. The fault lay in the clumsy manipulation of their business by some of the actors. However, a generous discount should be allowed since several parts, notably in Act I, represent characters old enough to be the players' grandsires. To be sure, that is an obstacle insurmountable in any dramatic enterprise by an undergraduate organization, yet it scarcely accounts for the consistently bad make-ups in last night...
...human Carl Laemmle Biographer Drinkwater is unwilling or unable to tell much. "I understand that he plays poker for nickels or dollars with application and some skill, and that he has a palate for champagne which, it is whispered, he is in a position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions, and he collects autographs. . . . His taste in the arts is unpretentious, but it is his own and not Sir Joseph Duveen's. He has a partiality for race courses, and usually contrives to put a little on the loser. When he is traveling, his aversion to solitude...
...elections which took place Sunday have clearly shown me that I have lost the affection of my people. ... A king can make mistakes, and doubtless I have sometimes erred, but I know very well that our country has always shown itself to be generous toward faults which were without malice...
...Japanese Romeo, "New York has been the city of my dreams! . . . Statue of Liberty. . . . Marvelous panorama. . . . We knew at once that this New York was great beyond all the dreams we had dreamed of it ! ... As we stand here . . . we cannot but feel that this city is as generous as it is great...