The Lakers possess the lordly LeBron James and the munificently talented Anthony Davis, and they own the second-best record in the league.
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It was a battle between capital munificently abetted by Fascism, and labor misled by the poisonous internal politics of the Soviet Union and deserted by its natural allies, the moderate, liberal nations like France, Great Britain, and the United States.
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He was generous with his wealth, especially in times of plague and famine. He strictly and justly enforced the law without respect to person, yet was ever ready to forgive offences against himself, including two attempted assassinations. Gontrand munificently built and endowed many churches and monasteries. St. Gregory related that the king performed many miracles both before and after his death, some of which St. Gregory claimed to have witnessed himself.
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Caxés, after serving Philip II and Philip III during forty-four years, died at Madrid in extreme poverty, at an advanced age, in 1612. The king being informed of the state of destitution in which he had left his widow and eight children, munificently assigned to them five-pence a day for one year. One of his sons Eugenio Caxés became a painter who also worked for Philip III.
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He served as President of a committee which had for its object the organization of an expedition to the Jews in China, Abyssinia, and the East. He was also a member of the council of Jews' College and of the committee of the Jews' Free School, which two institutions he munificently endowed. He was also a warden of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. For several years, he acted as examiner in Hebrew to the Jews' Free School.
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Sava Tekelija was in opposition to the military demands, preferring negotiations with the Emperor. In the Serb-populated parts of the Ottoman Empire, Tekelija was trusted and honoured as an ardent supporter of Karađorđe. He contributed munificently towards the prosecution of that leader's war policy. He also did his best to advocate and promote education among the Serbs in the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary and elsewhere as a means of reconciling Serbs and Hungarians and raising the character of his people.
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The fund succeeded in convincing a number of Iranian Zoroastrians to emigrate to India (where they are known today as Iranis) and the efforts of its emissary Maneckji Limji Hataria may have been instrumental in obtaining a remission of the jizya for their co-religionists in 1882. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Parsis had emerged as "the foremost people in India in matters educational, industrial, and social. They came in the vanguard of progress, amassed vast fortunes, and munificently gave away large sums in charity".
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The English tenor Michael Kelly witnessed another meeting between Paisiello and Mozart. It is believed that Mozart kissed Paisiello on the arm during a rehearsal for Il Re Teodoro. After many vicissitudes, resulting from political and dynastic changes, he was invited to Paris (1802) by Napoleon, whose favor he had won five years previously by composing a march for the funeral of General Hoche. Napoleon treated him munificently, while cruelly neglecting two more famous composers, Luigi Cherubini and Étienne Méhul, to whom the new favorite transferred the hatred he had formerly borne to Cimarosa, Guglielmi and Piccinni.
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In 1862 Charles Castleman moved to Glasshayes with his third wife Isabel Swinburne,Jolliffe, Bob. It was Curvy like a Corkscrew, Bournemouth Echo, 1 Apr 2008 and whilst in residence gifted the clock to the clocktower of the newly built local St. Michael and All Angels church, in exchange for the closing of an insalubrious public road which ran directly behind the house.The parishioners of Lyndhurst will be delighted to hear that Charles Castleman, Esq., of Glass Hayes Mansion, in this place, has munificently offered to give new first-rate church clock, to be placed in the new tower now building here - Salisbury and Winchester Journal Wiltshire, 5 Dec 1863 In 1874 the house became the seat of Colonel Alexander Caldcleugh Macleay, a local magistrate and commander of the Seaforth Highlanders, and was the childhood home of Sir James William Ronald Macleay and his sister Lina MacLeay (who would later marry Sir Robert Arbuthnot).
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It was reported that the long- desired scheme was largely brought about by the extremely generous and public- spirited action of Alderman George Shedden J.P., who munificently gave a valuable portion of his Spring Hill estate, abutting the foreshore. This also had the effect of supporting the Council in their effort to find work for around 200 unemployed men, suffering from the slackness in the shipbuilding industry, following the ending of the Great War. Shedden said that it was a very happy day in his life and that he was thankful to have lived to see what a splendid promenade the District Council had made.The Isle of Wight County Press dated 14 June 1924, Page 9 George Shedden also gave to the town a scout hut, which used to be located between St Thomas’s and Old Road.The Isle of Wight County Press dated 20 February 2009, Page 8 The esplanade road, which was opened in 1927 and named ‘The Shedden Espalanade’, is now an invaluable part of daily East Cowes life.
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