Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Getchell's announcement brought a do-or-die rejoinder from across the ocean. R. S. "Sandy" MacDonald of Cambridge University stated that the English teams would be glad to pay their own way across this year. All was happy for a brief space, although American track men may have felt a bit miffed at a vision of John Bull, in scuffed spikes and moth-eaten persey, running against well-fed and well-outfitted local collegians...
...cast in the top feminine role of White Christmas, Berlin, believing the part should have been filled by an established movie star, gave only dubious assent. But recently Hartman heard from Berlin, calling excitedly from Miami Beach. Said Berlin: "I thought you ought to know I'm very glad we have her in our picture. I'm glad to see that she's living up to the expectations you had for her and that she's already taking on stature and importance." Then the composer explained his change of heart: "I have a copy of TIME...
...hand at superintending-in Kalamazoo, Mich., New Rochelle, N.Y., and Kansas City, Mo.-Hunt started setting things to rights. A friendly, glad-handing Rotarian ("It's not what you eat that makes ulcers, but what eats you"), he could be ruthless if necessary. He put school jobs under civil service, withdrew temporary certificates, set up a series of stiff examinations for prospective teachers. He doubled his budget to $146 million, started a $50 million building program, streamlined his schools from top to bottom. He raised teachers' salaries almost 50%, relieved them once & for all from political pressure. "They...
...Vaseline, wore an unbecoming hat and dirty white shoes, twisted her stockings to make the seams crooked. She shuffled into Laemmle's office, slouched awkwardly on a couch and whined: "I wanta get outa here. I'm not happy here." He took one good look and was glad...
...more difficult-hush to a whispering pianissimo. The program was conventional, except for one of Brazilian Composer Villa-Lobos' torrid Bachianas Brasileiras. But the playing was of the caliber that makes such big-name performers as Helen Traubel, Yehudi Menuhin and Artur Rubinstein, recent soloists with the Florida, glad to return for more...