Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered on a war of nerves, each refusing to go to the other. Said Martin: "I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to see the Speaker on a subject like this. I'd be an interloper." Replied Rayburn: "My door is never locked. I'm always glad to see Mr. Martin or any other member of the House." How long would the waiting game go on? Grinned Joe Martin: "My kidneys are good...
...Batista by putting out a statement criticizing police mistreatment of Cuban women demonstrators. Said Dulles: "I want to say that it is a statement which, perhaps, from a purely technical point of view, may not have been perfectly correct. But it was a very human statement. I'm glad that we have some, in fact I hope many, ambassadors who are not mere automatic machines but who do have sentiments of humanity which they sometimes express without regard, perhaps, to the diplomatic niceties...
...improper offstage signals and placement of cameras. Casting a withering glance at a cameraman whose lenses were not quite up to Paar, he smirked: "I have no makeup on my belt buckle tonight." And when one show became a shambles, he ad-libbed: "Friends, aren't you glad you tuned in; we've been rehearsing for nine minutes." Some of Paar's gentle mockery was a replay of old summer material, e.g., his radio-announcer bloopers ("We have just the furniture to seat your nudes"), and reliable chestnuts like "Bring something round-we'll have...
...good purse. But I'm not going to fight any more good boys. I'm not a fighter any more. That kid tonight, I don't know. But I don't think he was trying to knock me out. And I'm glad. It'd be an awful thing for a fighter to end up with someone standing over him counting...
...Rome's top high-fashion house, Fontana, Pius XII talked a language understood from Rome's Via Condotti to Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in commenting on one of Fontana's sidelines (making austere black dresses for foreigners to wear at papal audiences). "We are glad," said the Pope, "that we, too, bring you some work...