Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prime mover behind Canada House. Ferreting about, the M.P.s wondered why the Canadian Club, long installed in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, had decided, even before construction started, not to take space in Canada House. Lawson could not say-but he did know that the former Liberal government was "very glad" to hear of the club's decision. He added: "I can understand the reasons. The Canadian Club has some very strict racial rules...
...glad you came," my friend of last Saturday said, pressing over to me through the crowd. "He really had them today, didn't he? That mystery of non-being always gets 'em. You see what I mean about God, now, don't you? No one thing, but the ground of it all. Sheer transcendence itself...
...bellowed "Bravo!" for your Dec. 23 roundup story on music. I'm glad you stressed the country's community orchestras; they are doing a whale of a job. More than 2,250,000 people have attended the Los Angeles Bureau of Music's late spring, summer and early fall band concerts. The community-sing attendance is well over the million mark, despite the once-crippling inroads of television. We sponsor a citywide "Artists of the Future" youth voice contest and an avocational civic "pops" orchestra. Dig under the films, TV, radio and records, and the blandishments...
...topnotch small college, a college to which any able boy should be glad to go, found that no less than 38% of those whom it accepted for admission declined. Similarly, a first-rate Ivy League university-again, a place to which any candidate ought to be happy to go-had 37% rejections. Another good college had 55% of their applicants refuse admission when it was offered...
...Coal-heaver Preacher" (born 1774) would have been poor had he not "found God's promises to be the Christian's banknotes." Briefly, this meant that whenever Mr. Huntington wanted something, he prayed for it, and then made his prayer known to impressionable people who were glad to oblige. Soon, God's overdraft was alarming, as Mr. Huntington had put on his tab "a country house, a well-stocked farm, a coach." Huntington died leaving a self-written epitaph which ended...