Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bundle" and a full-fledged satire on many of them. For example, when the police commissioner begged Steel to give up his spectacularly successful amateur detective work so that the police would have a chance to catch some crooks themselves ("Heroism at its greatest! To suffer silently without reward"), Stainless reluctantly agreed, rented a room in a quiet boarding house to rest. Not till three weeks later did he realize that his fellow boarders were all crooks, finally went to work and bagged them...
...ordered a vote on a bill amending the constitution in several places. But Rhee's largesse had convinced several balky Assemblymen that in dalliance there was further reward. When the secret vote was counted, Vice Chairman of the Assembly Choi Soon Joo regretfully announced that the proposal had received only 135 votes, just two-thirds of one ballot less than required, "therefore the amendments are defeated...
...Wood had employee trouble again, this time with his most recent secretary, an ex-model named Lucille Stiglich, 23. She charged that she paid a surprise visit to his Biscayne Bay castle, found him there with a new lady friend, and got soundly beaten up by him as a reward. Nonsense, retorted Wood, Lucille came around with blood in her eye and threatened to kill...
...lifetime has brought Ernest Hemingway recognition, distinction and reward that only death and passage of time bring to many others. Hemingway is satisfied. He would not change any of his life or of his writings-anyway, "not yet." He feels now as he did some years ago, and he is willing to rest on it: "You only have to do it once to get remembered by some people. But if you can do it year after year after year quite a lot of people remember and they tell their children and their children and their grandchildren remember...
There is enormous pride and satisfaction to be gained from the privilege of serving people, communities and governments, quite apart from the monetary reward. Professional men everywhere are stimulated by it. There is a dignity in professional work that is its own reward...