Word: largesses
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...close to one famine per year. Amid the Chinese chaos since 1911 conditions operating to produce mass starvation have grown steadily worse. Doubtless, well fed U. S. citizens will again contribute toward filling empty Chinese stomachs; but the time draws near when they may wish to know why their largess will continue for many a long year. Last week, as purse strings loosened, alert minds sought famine facts...
...divisionals will assemble to watch the birdie from the steps of Widener. After their care-worn faces are exposed to the negative, their lives will be imperilled in the positive. That is, the freshmen will be allowed the rare pleasure of settling old scores with the size of their largess. Silver is a heavier metal than nickel or copper and usually comes in bigger commodities. Surely the privilege of "crowning" the senior is cheap at any price...
...mercy because he is rich and over-educated." He stated that were the death penalty abolished, there would be no possible deterrent to killing, since no criminal feared the pleasant conditions of a jail. In prison, Judge Talley said, ruffians are bedded with a comfort, fed with a largess, that they could never themselves have afforded. The long hard evenings are made bearable by cinema shows, or, should the prisoners weary of these, by free performances of well-known stage stars...
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...