Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William P. MacCracken was not the big fish whom Senator Black was trying to catch in his net. The Big Fish was ex-Postmaster General Brown. Mr. Brown was not summoned, did not appear to testify. Senator Black indicated that he would be glad to question Mr. Brown if Mr. Brown would waive immunity. Mr. Browrn made no move. He remained in Manhattan where he is board chairman of Hudson Tubes, the sub-river line William Gibbs McAdoo built between Manhattan and Jersey City. Other witnesses told the following tale to the Committee...
...Irene Curie-Joliot snapped up a science degree at the University of Paris. When her second child was born two winters ago she was away from the workshop only a month. She and M. Joliot get up at 5:30, write their papers ("What a burden!"), are glad to reach the laboratory at 9. They keep long hours, find no time for theatres and concerts. For three months in summer they leave the atom in peace, take the children to grandmother Curie's place on the Brittany coast. There is never a thought of dividing scientific credit. Husband...
...purest bull character into a bull of bronze, reasoned Sculptor Herbert Haseltine, is to model only from a champion. Furthermore, the owners of such prize animals are usually only too glad to pay for it. For 13 years Haseltine has been freezing champions into stone and bronze as accurately as a Stone Age man graphing a bison on his cave wall. Last week the results, tilling two rooms in Manhattan's swank Knoedler Galleries, were packed up and shipped to Chicago's Field Museum at Marshall Field's expense to go on permanent exhibition...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all students in the University at the President's house, 17 Quincy Street, Sunday afternoon, February 11th between 4 and 6 o'clock...
...nervous did Adamic finally become about Jugoslavian censorship that he decided to leave the country unexpectedly. Safely across the border with the notes for his book, he breathed more easily. Though he was glad to have seen the old country again, he was yet gladder that he did not have to live there. He feels sorry for Jugoslavians, thinks they are condemned to be cannon fodder at no distant date...