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Word: generously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the U.S., Field devoted his attention to Asia. He worked hard for the respectable Institute of Pacific Relations. He took no pay; he was, in fact, one of the institute's most generous contributors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Life of an Angel | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...musical version of Anita Loos's famed bestseller of the '20s, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 153 Ibs.) Carol Channing is ludicrously miscast. Her head, topped by an unruly peroxide burlesque of a flapper's hairdo, seems too small for her generous features. Set insecurely on the top of a columnar neck and broad, sloping shoulders wrapped in the shapeless fashions of two decades ago, it gives her the appearance of an amiable performing seal; and like a seal she seems naively anxious to please. Her big voice glides effortlessly from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Wonderful Leveling Off | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...Generous Spirit. In Honolulu, one $10 check, donated to the Advertiser's fund for the needy, bounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 9, 1950 | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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