Word: gladdening
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...nine times Old Father Time has completed his yearly cycle since the last bugle call was sounded and the last rebel yell was heard fighting under the Stars and Bars . . . Four score and nine times the shrinking violets have timidly raised their heads from their winter hiding place to gladden the hearts of mankind. The rosebuds have sprung into new life and flaunted their wanton beauty to delight the discerning eye. The honeysuckles have saturated the balmy air with the odor of the nectar of the gods, and the songbirds have awakened the echoes of music with their renewed message...
That was an interesting and snappy resume of revolutionary Latin America. However, don't you think you simplified the situation in Costa Rica too much: "A rustic democracy fit to gladden Thomas Jefferson's heart." What was all the uproar in San José in 1948, of which Otilio Ulate was the principal? As I recall, there was quite a bit of bloodshed then in that "rustic democracy...
Costa Rica. A rustic democracy fit to gladden Thomas Jefferson's heart...
...neat bit of off-the-cuff campaigning, and was calculated-like his "hope" of making a cross-country give-'em-hell speaking tour this spring or summer-to gladden the hearts of the Democratic bigwigs who met in Denver last week to beat the drums for '52. Politics, like June, was bustin' out all over...
...rich and sentimental Texas, such resourceful attention to the customer's whims has put Linz Bros. "Jewelists" (a copyrighted coinage) in a class by itself. To gladden its clients' eyes, Linz has turned out gold and platinum cowboy belt buckles, and jeweled stickpins shaped like oil derricks (one of them for a late-shopping oilman who amused himself while he waited by tossing silver dollars on the floor ahead of the janitor's broom). But such spectacular baubles are only the showy side of a solid, 72-year-old trade that grosses $2,000,000 a year...