Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relief fund. Italian Ambassador Francesco Lequio gave 10,000 pesetas in the name of Benito Mussolini, "always a friend of Spain." U. S. Ambassador Alexander W. Weddell's wife gave 10,000 pesetas, Rumania's onetime King Carol 3,000, German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer a "generous contribution." British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare announced that two ships laden with grain for Britain would be diverted to Santander. Everybody wanted to do something neighborly for politically strategic Spain...
...would fit well into any revue. Bob Henry proves himself a capable young comedian in two laughable acts. Estelle Stahl provides a couple of the better moments, and the Willison-Bates number, "What Noise Annoys an Oyster," is first-rate. With more attention to its own better examples, a generous use of the stage hook on some of its amateurish singing and acting, the Players' Theatre should get many a bleat at Boston before shearing time in the spring...
This burden should be shifted from the host's purse to the guest's memory. The limit should be made more generous, and then the one who overeats his quota by mistake or on purpose should be the one to pay. A fair method would be to include the meal in his contracted number but to add a nominal service charge of ten or fifteen cents to cover any extra expenses involved and to discourage House members from eating too many meals away from home...
...other Americans to know, and I do not think one British evacuee whould contradict me. That the impression which will go back to England with us, will not be fair, nor medium, but very good indeed. It will be an impression of some of the kindest, most hospitable and generous people in the world. ANNE DAY Brookline, Mass...
...those lands still free from German rule, the world is faced again with the problem of human derelicts. The United States, in accordance with her tradition and as the chief semi-neutral nation, has taken the lead in financing escapes and in finding new homes for the outcasts. But, generous as the financial response has been, American ignorance concerning these refugees has hampered aid programs and offered the Christian Front, the Klu Klux Klan, and the Bund a chance to strike a blow for the swastika here at home. These All Americans with their dupes and colleagues oppose further immigration...