Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bush: "As one of its trustees, I thank the Senator for that very generous observation...
...industries have moved in within ten years. In Scranton, Pa., a city development commission has rallied more than 3,400 investors who have contributed $3,500,000 to build more than 25 plants that have added $23 million in new paychecks. In traditionally low-income areas, e.g., Mississippi, where generous inducements have been offered industry since 1936, 99 new plants have been built in five years with the aid of municipal bond issues...
Footsteps in the Fog (Columbia) whips up the classic recipe for a melodramatic potboiler: mix two engaging scoundrels (Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons) with a brace of murders, add a pinch of blackmail, a generous helping of blue London fog, some bilious green Edwardian interiors, the clop-clop of hansom cabs, and allow to simmer for 90 minutes over a gaslight flame...
Like Hobin Hood, the once pious Man Singh had become an outlaw first because of a fancied injustice. Like Robin's, his crimes were said to be aimed only at the rich and powerful. He was always generous to the widows of those he had killed. and he was just in his own rough way. But as the legend of his terror spread across some 8,000 square miles of Indian territory, a price of $3,000 was put on Man Singh's head. Through the years, the police of four states schemed, connived and risked their lives...
...most resolute fortune huntresses, Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, 32, ninth wife of burned-out (61) Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, airily counted her blessings. Of Tommy's divorce settlement offer of $260,000 in cash (tax free), plus other tokens of affection (jewelry, bonds, etc.), Anita cooed: "Wonderful, generous." A veritable seascape in her getup of fish-flecked sailcloth, a fishnet stole and assorted pearls. Anita announced, however, that she wants the exclusive right to pen Tommy's life story (tentative title: The Manville Myth) before she agrees to jettison him in Reno's divorce mill. Then she sadly...