Word: generous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Majority Leader Rayburn: "[The President] is doing a beautiful and generous thing...
...helped dedicate Amarillo's new post office, given Postmaster Farley an Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief entertainer when Franklin Roosevelt dropped by, been sponsor to many a local sporting event. In his largest role, Gene Howe is known to his Amarillo readers as Old Tack, the generous, convivial, duck-hunting, dog-finding, golf-playing conductor of a column of chatter called "The Tactless Texan." Last week, beneath the smudgy picture of cross-eyed Ben Turpin which daily tops the column, Old Tack, 53, fresh from a visit to Washington, made an announcement which might lead him once again...
...anybody wants to drink liquor without getting drunk, Dr. Ira Albert Manville of the University of Oregon Medical School thinks he can tell him how. Recommended by him last week was a generous portion of apple juice along with the drinks. Dr. Manville administered enough alcohol to one dog to cause stupor and death, the same amount accompanied by apple juice to another dog. The second dog lost a certain amount of muscular coordination, but remained in such good shape that he did not even fall asleep...
...generous radio station WOR, time donated to pure Americanism is time well-spent. But free time attacking a specific political view usually means, in radio's unofficial code, more free time defending it. Last week, just before Mrs. Rushmore Patterson rushed off to South Dakota to attend ceremonies with the Gutzon Borglums at Mt. Rushmore† (named for her late, great lawyer father, Charles E. Rushmore) WOR officials queried her as to the future trend of U. S. Drama, Inc. She revealed that she hoped to present Liberty Leaguer John W. Davis in a program soon. The officials wondered...
...sure to be much handsomer; in the first five months of 1939, its backlog boomed more than 140% over last year while the combined backlog of all other Baldwin divisions rose only half as fast. The Navy allows Midvale up to 10% profit on contracts after figuring a generous 10-20% depreciation. This assures not only good profit but is enabling Midvale to keep its capacities modern, efficient...