Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Godless Novelists. " 'When can we expect another Brideshead Revisited?' Dear ladies, never. ... I have already shaken off one of the American critics, Mr. Edmund Wilson, who once professed a generous interest in me. He was outraged (quite legitimately by his standards) at finding God introduced into my story. I believe that you can only leave God out by making your characters pure abstractions...
...week's end the General took off on a 12,000-mile hop to Washington. There he would tell President Truman and Congress how the U.S. could provide concrete assistance to China in her critical months. The principal item on his list of recommendations would be a generous loan to help finance China's reconstruction...
...Said Britain's Sir Wilfrid Griffin Eady, who spent a month in Ottawa negotiating the loan: almost all the money will be spent in Canada, principally on foods and manufactured goods. Knowing that, practically all Canadians approved the loan; some thought its terms could even have been more generous...
...Montreal, the Daily Star commented: "This loan [means] work and wages for Canadian workers and profits for our manufacturers." Le Canada added: "It pays to be generous...
...criticisms of the Army's waste of materiel and bungling in general. But there is one branch of the Army which has received very little publicity and which has done "a wonderful job . . . the Army Emergency Relief. I know from my own experience that the A.E.R. is most generous about lending money or giving it outright where the soldier or his family is unable to repay a loan. . . . With us it was a question of allotment checks being six months behind schedule. I know that the A.E.R. has helped hundreds of service families in just such a predicament...