Word: givers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world, tired of this giver of evil gifts, ready to kick him out of the age which, in spite of him, is so much like him, discovers that the old man has brought back to life a brave and beautiful and altogether lovely and lovable creature?Joan...
...trade which the Volstead Act throws their way. But if they were less short sighted and would open their hearts to Mucha's benign example, tax collectors might be more leniently disposed and the public might cast a bland smile upon them. For everyone loves a cheerful public spirited giver, even though he rob Peter to pay Paul
...Class of 1926 to the Seniors yesterday, falling short as it did by $200 of last year's Freshman contribution, may be partially explained by the rain, which towards the close of the ceremony was falling in torrents sufficient to quench the ardor of the most munificent giver...
...generally believed by those who see with two eyes that Syracuse or any other institution of learning is subsidized to teach falsely. But it is true that human beings are often grateful and more often needy, and that the relation of the giver to his gift is not terminated by the giving. There is, therefore, and there will always be, a temptation on the part of academic recipients of charity to cherish the source of their supply. And for that reason if for no other we should be better off without personal endowments, in theory. The difficulty in practice...
...keep the political cauldrom from upsetting. In Hali despite vague of "American actroties". It is generally admitted that the island has settled down to a prosperity unknown before American occupation. In others of the small "banana" republics, as O. Henry loved to describe, the more proscuce of a cool, giver American destroyer slipping into the harbor has completely discussed inciptent fire cracker revolutions...