Word: giftedly
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...Gift taxes on money or property beginning with 1% on gifts not greater than $3,000 and running up to 25% on gifts of more than...
After the last curtain had fallen to thunderous applause ? applause had thundered all evening?no one in the audience arose to leave. It was understood that speeches and gift presentations would take place. The curtain rose again; and now was seen Scotti in evening clothes, surrounded by all the principals of the Metropolitan Opera Company. An uproar! People shouted, clapped their hands. In the boxes sat two primadonnas who had sung Tosca to Scotti's Scarpia, Geraldine Farrar and Marcella Sembrich. They applauded with memories of many a triumphal performance...
...absolute refusal was somewhat better than evasion. Even the "I don't know that" evasion however, is now impossible. The conditions have been presented for over two weeks, the request has been made. Giving is a question of appeal and convenience. If the appeal outweighs the inconvenience the gift is certain. And with a very slight use of the imagination, the European student is at the door. The undergraduate meets him as he goes to lunch. Will he not, as a fellow student and a gentleman, extend an invitation? Of a certainty--and today...
...subscription of $25 from a graduate is the largest single gift yet received, although there have been many of $5 and $10. The canvass so far has reached less than 250 undergraduates, and few replies from the graduate students, who are being solicited by letter, have been received, so that the total will probably be swelled substantially today...
...last goal was also made by the around-the-goal route, and this time the expected pass materialized. The men in front of the net, however, were neither able to spoil Wright's gift, or to block the scoring shot which Westman drove between their legs...