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Word: generously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passage about a prostitute-waif from The Black Book by the English Writer Lawrence Durrell) that seemed creative indeed, many more that seemed fashionably frantic in technique as in content. A section on "American design" was atrociously badly designed. Question: does editorship of such a publication demand merely a generous ear, or also an exacting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...form of poetry whose raw material is life," as "an instinct second only to that of the passion of love. . . . Cities are more docile mistresses than women. Like women, they require time and money; but of the two they are by far the less demanding and more generous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Second Best to Love | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Bishop Rowe's first sermons was preached to the sourdoughs in Cy Marx's Fairbanks saloon. Marx, a Jew, started the collection with a $10 bill, raised $1,400. "Tough and generous" Tex Rickard, who ran a saloon and gambling house, helped raise money for the Episcopal hospital in Circle City, first in the interior of Alaska. In those gold-rush days, Bishop Rowe bunked with Rex Beach and Jack London, taught the latter about Huskies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mushing Bishop | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Finis? To poor China, all this was gloomy news. For every step which brings Russia and Japan closer together hasten-China's fall. Soon and late, Russia has been China's best friend-more constant and generous than Britain, the U. S. or France. But no one knows better than the Chungking Government that the Russian bear has learned how to somersault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...smash hit as when he has a flop. A friend has said that if Kaufman isn't a millionaire, he'll do until one comes along; but Kaufman may not be altogether fooling when he insists that constant work is something of a financial necessity. A generous man, he has never worshipped at the shrine of Compound Interest. "All I know," he once said, "is that I have earned a great deal of money and I haven't got any of it. If I don't get a hit each year I am in a damned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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