Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make more than $30 a week, but never got much more, even after his boss bought him an automobile. His wife moped in her mother's big, heavily mortgaged house in Brooklyn, blamed herself when their baby died, blamed Bob when, after a gloomy weekend, he seemed glad to get back on the road. Bob took to padding his expense account, almost slept with a shopgirl in Boston, began to feel trapped. But when the old lady died, they found an insurance policy...
This year's senior received last week a unique phenomenon, an album which had replaced the usually ghastly attempts at facetious reminiscence with a serious interpretation of the past four years. The senior is glad to see this, glad the editors have escaped the rut of ordinary albums, or alba...
...father's estate (estimated at $1,000,000). Before that he had been a Pittsburgh socialite, a hard-drinking World War major in the A. E. F. (gassed, twice cited for gallantry), a Brigadier General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. In January 1938 he was glad to take an $8,000 job as city solicitor from his onetime law partner, Pittsburgh's Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill Mehard gave an up-to-date accounting of his finances. On trial in a Pittsburgh criminal court for misdemeanor in office and taking bribes...
Sorokin defends the institution of assistant professor as "a bridge for the most promising young scholars," and says. "I am glad that--President Conant decided not to abolish entirely the category of assistant professor...
...Errett Cord: 20,000 shares), is considerably smaller than the average issue admitted to the Big Board. And American, having been listed on the Curb only three years, has neither the profit record nor the "seasoning" that has traditionally been required for Stock Exchange listing. But the exchange was glad to list American as the largest unit of a growing industry. American is glad to have the more active market on the Big Board, for it may be obliged to issue more shares to improve its current weak cash position. Due to heavy purchases of new planes, its cash...