Word: gladly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ever fascinating to Englishmen is the question of what they are really like. Last week the King's subjects were glad to hear from Edward of Wales another buzz on the old saw. Said H.R.H. in welcoming to St. James's Palace the Council for Relations with Other Countries: "Better traveling facilities abroad since the War and an improvement in the manners and attitude of our tourists have done much to kill the baseless legends about us. All Britons do not have prominent teeth, nor do they all wear knickerbockers...
Again I thank you for your comprehensive review of the situation; my TIME-respecting family at home as well as the other 499,999 of your subscribers will be glad to know, I am sure, that we are not being coerced into reading the "Primer" by a lot of long-bearded "Reds" armed with machine guns and treatises on free love...
...Houston ruled Tennessee and practically created Texas, but there were plenty of times when Virginia was glad to forget that he had been born at Timber Ridge Church, seven miles from Lexington. He lived as a boy with the Cherokees in Tennessee, got to be Governor at 34, quit late in his term because his aristocratic new wife had left him under tongue-wagging circumstances. Sam Houston went back to the Indians to forget. The Indians admired him, trusted him, gave him a squaw, but changed their name for him from "Col-on-neh" to "Big Drunk...
Round No. 3, which ended last week, was a victory for ASCAP. Though the Government had insisted on beginning the trial this month, its witnesses wavered so under cross-examination that it was glad to adjourn to bolster up its case. Witness William J. Benning, musical director of Radio Station WTMJ in Milwaukee, asserted that he would be unable to operate without the popular music in ASCAP's catalog. ASCAP controls many an orchestration where it does not control the original tune. Milwaukee's Benning admitted that in such cases his station chose to use ASCAP...
Next day Mr. Jones came suddenly to life. He would, he said, be glad to receive a process server any time, because now he intended to challenge in a New York Federal Court SEC's right to subpoena him or to regulate the issuance and sale of his securities. Cried the blond oil royalist...