Word: gladder
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...roamed the world with a biological eye, has written many papers and books including Common Wealth (1925) in which he approached economics from a sociobiological viewpoint. Although he has but one child he delights in the fact that that child has four children and "would probably be gladder if she had six." He tramps, fences when he has time, prefers an evening of conversation to all but the most serious drama...
...curious position of being over advertised by the clothiers of the smart set publications, and under appreciated or oftener unknown among those who find much of real beauty in other sports. One is glad that polo can be played and seen literally at Harvard. One is gladder that in this sport the factor of lost time has been erased...
...fact, dug up by busy nobodies, that he and Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover, both Quakers, were married by a Catholic priest. The occasion, in 1899, required haste because Mr. Hoover had to sail from California next day for China. The Rev. Raymon Maria Mestries, Monterey mission priest, was no gladder than they that he had a dispensation to marry Protes- tants...
...beams upon her now and is "glad" with her. She industrious ly makes bandages and comfort-kits, exposes a woman who has been writing poison-pen letters to send to the sol diers. But meanwhile she never writes Jimmy about her great "secret," for which of course she is "gladder" than ever...