Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Marquise was clearly pregnant, but she didn't know how she had gotten that way. Hers was not the usual fault of having been too generous to too many men. She was a virtuous Italian lady of noble birth, a gentle widow and devoted mother. Her father, mother and doctor were not amused when she denied having entertained any man, and a midwife sternly reminded her that only the Virgin Mary had been raised above the law of nature. Whereupon the baffled Marquise put an ad in the paper, described her predicament and asked any man to come forward...
Smith, first Negro cabinet member in Michigan's history. In the Williams era, there have been generous increases in aid for the aged, the blind, the crippled children. The average unemployment compensation check has gone up more than 60%. Michigan has built eight community colleges, 27 mental clinics and hospitals, the $100 million Mackinac Bridge, a latticework of fine highways. The bill for public improvements: close to $1 billion...
...Tiber was a tributary of the Bronx River. To these blunders is added the customary quota of glaring goofs (a map of Italy that looks like nothing seen in Rome before the 19th century), slobbery sentiment ("Be gentle with me. I'm going to have a baby"), a generous helping of cheesecake (Actress Simmons takes a bath in which she womanfully breasts the waves), and barrels of bright red, fresh-from-the-paint-can blood...
Behrman found him doodling caricatures of Balfour, Oscar Wilde and Henry James as if he inhabited a kind of sempiternal Edwardia. He also found him talking. Apart from copious quotations from Max's own writings and a generous sprinkling of his superlative caricatures, Portrait of Max is a graciously spliced tape recording of the twilight talk of a minor, but finely mannered, man of letters...
...from the poor, even offered them handouts. Within a few months, Chippy's waiting room and the corridor outside it were jammed every weekday morning with as many as a hundred dips, degenerates, con men, pete busters, second-story types. check artists, swindlers, arsonists, rapists, murderers, and a generous assortment of poor but honest citizens in trouble...