Word: generous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy time at Dakin's sporting goods and hardware store on Central Street in the quiet little city of Bangor, Me. Proprietor Everett ("Shep") Hurd would not have been at all surprised one day last month when three undersized young men bought two .45 Colt automatics and a generous supply of ammunition, except for one fact...
...removes a hand that has supported the University with liberality, modesty, and intelligence for a quarter century. It is estimated that his gifts toward the Music Building, the Education School Endowment, and the new Fogg Museum totaled over a million dollars, and marked him as one of the most generous of Harvard's non-alumnus benefactors...
...held high ideals about good government and political honesty, and he felt that he could best serve his country by devoting the remainder of his life to public service. As a wealthy man, he believed in the responsibility that goes with riches, and his generous and intelligent use of his private fortune stands as eloquent testimonial to his ideals and fineness of character...
...from eating apple butter with home made bread, but, in order to qualify, I'll offer my transgression of slipping away from a morning task for a siesta in the wood shed with a huge basket of butternuts. I was fond of them and the supply so generous I indulged past discretion. I fain recall a most distressing followup, which, I am sure, would equal or exceed any after effects of home-stirred apple butter. With this recital I hope to qualify as a member of the "Butter Stirrers" in full and regular standing...
...predatory lass, lithely represented by Penelope Dudley Ward. The play is joyously, if inexpertly, served by the younger characters of its cast (Philip Friend, Cyril Raymond, Hubert Gregg, Jacqueline Porel), Veterans Frank Lawton and Marcel Vallee (M. Maingot) contributing most of the stage craftsmanship, and Guy Middleton a generous measure of what...