In The Floorwalker (1916) , Charlie Chaplin was let loose among munificent displays of goods and that thrilling invention of the previous century, the escalator.
Moreover, it was the spot to which such French intelligence as was most to be relied upon, came quickest. Again: Tellson’s was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate.
It appeared to him a very natural movement in Bulstrode that he should have reconsidered his refusal: it corresponded with the more munificent side of his character.