Word: unselfish
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...play of the new season was not very good. It dealt with a handsome wife whose husband stole to buy her pretty clothes. Whereupon he was clapped firmly into jail and she went to live with the villain in the vain hope that his wealthy influence would liberate the unselfish sinner...
...paid. Strangely enough there are no aristocrats in Spain interested enough in music to serve as patrons or in any way to encourage musical development. The rank and file of the Spanish people are music lovers, but the aristocracy do not, as a rule, even attend the concerts. The unselfish enthusiasm of the members of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra is touching. They played for me for three rehearsals without remuneration, and the complete sale of the house, when divided among the orchestra, netted each member about...
Adam Baxter possessed a very amazing memory. He could hear a passage read to him twice, and then forever after was able to recite it. With the aid of his unselfish though somewhat belligerent granddaughter, he conducts weekly "symposiums" for his town fellows: he teaches them much, inspires them, helps them--but he does not tell them he is illiterate, that his library is a fake. And so he is an imposter...
...Advertising and Selling Fortnightly and elsewhere, has been lecturing, has ever held himself available to any earnest student whom his piled up knowledge might benefit. The award recognizes "his efforts in raising the standards of advertising, both as to planning and execution, his integrity in the profession, and his unselfish devotion to the younger men with whom he comes in contact...
...only without a government but lacks a majority strong enough to form one. The Communists, Radical Socialists, and Nationalists of the extreme right, whose unnatural union is responsible for the ministerial debacle, seems to have been actuated by partisan political considerations rather than by the single minded and unselfish devotion to the welfare of France, necessary if she is to be extricated from the difficulties in which she is floundering. Further to the situation, it is not practicable to dissolve the Chamber and appeal for a new election because certain necessary bills have not been passed...