Word: largesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Consequently, after such a satisfactory year the Freshmen cannot, in the fulness of their hearts, fall to contribute largess in satisfying sums. They should remember that half-dollars can be thrown with much greater force and accuracy than anything else,--except whole ones and that with such ammunition, they may not only do their duty, but also salve any personal grievances against the Seniors. And anyone who wishes to hear his name immortalized at the end of a "regular Harvard cheer" has the one chance in his life to accomplish it by sheer generosity...
...Pageantry" will the graduating class supplicate the Freshmen for the customary wherewithal. The Seniors are under promise of good behavior; should Yearling thrift cause them to forget this promise, all future pictures will be debarred, and all future pienics endangered. Therefore let the latter play their part with largess and goodwill; it will prove "bread upon the waters" with a particular aptitude for successful navigation...
...Howe are publishing a school edition of "Typee." In fostering interest in the sale of this masterpiece, an inspired press agent has this to say: "Young Tom and Long John Silver are masters of so many hearts that they need fear no rival. Yet Treasure Island with all its largess of romance falls short of exhausting the store. Some of the things Stevenson missed, Herman Melville found in the South Seas--and wrote "Typee." Days of the fear of sudden death; days of drowsy, warm forgetfulness; dark seas curling over glistening sands; amber sun-light through the palm-fronds, caressing...