Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month imprisonment had not been as unpleasant as he had anticipated. Free from his "business" cares, he had found time to have his tonsils removed in the prison hospital. During the summer he played baseball in the yard and felt better for the exercise. Always generous, he gave away to charity what his prison-mates estimated at $25,000. This openhandedness was responsible for the unconfirmed rumor that he had occupied a special cell with chintz curtains at the window, easy chairs, cozy bed and mattress. Some Philadelphians interpreted his generosity as a bid for hospitality when...
...specific group of 142 paintings and works of art to be known as the H. O. Havemeyer Collection. She directed that the Museum should also be given "all such other pictures, paintings, engravings, statuary and other works of art as my son Horace might appoint to it." No less generous than their mother, her son Horace and her daughters Adaline and Electra (now Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey and Mrs. James Watson Webb) appointed and appointed until the H. O. Havemeyer Collection was bloated to 1.907 specific objects. More modest than other museum donors, Mrs. Havemeyer specified...
...exclusive society. In his imposing mansion, "Single Oak," onetime home of Josephus Daniels, Wilson's Secretary of the Navy, set back from Cathedral Avenue in large, meticulously landscaped grounds, he entertains often and well. With the present Mrs. Phipps he displays to guests of the right social stamp generous hospitality in his Denver home, his Colorado mountain retreat, his Los Angeles estate...
...House Plan, to which Mr. French now brings some measure of undergraduate approval, President Angell spoke specifically. Until the plan gets fully under way, freshmen will use the buildings as dormitories. Conflict between the House Plan and fraternities will "be dealt with sympathetically." Generous provisions of Mr. Harkness's gift will enable impecunious boys "to enjoy the full advantages of the quadrangles without embarrassment...
...have reaped and enjoyed the rewards--fame and homage, election to senior fraternities, appointment to class offices, picture-in-the-paper, "done most for Yale," and all that sort of thing. It is unreasonable to expect them to see anything wrong in a system that has been so generous to them. It is reasonable for them to forget that there are hundreds, possibly thousands of young men--and it is this majority which the faculty knows of and is thinking of--for whom college has been disappointing, even a failure. Yale is perfect as it is now: why change...