Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glad to see that President Conant has appointed a Committee on Seals, Arms, and Diplomas to deal with doubted legitimacy of Harvard's famous Veritas escutcheon. The baroque plaster and wood emblazoned over the Dunster House Library probably constitutes Complaint No. 1, as it is radically incorrect. When the original designers took their idea to America's greatest heraldic wood carver in 1929 they were politely thrown out of the shop. The craftsman said he would not be party to such nonsense. He proved to his would-be elients that the lozenged shape of the ornament was the heraldic symbol...
...present abnormal relations between . . . the U. S. . . . and Russia. It is most regrettable that these great peoples . . . should now be without a practicable method of communicating directly with each other. The difficulties that have created this anomalous situation are serious but not, in my opinion, insoluble. . . . I should be glad to receive any representatives you may designate to explore with me personally all questions outstanding between our countries. Participation in such a discussion would, of course, not commit either nation to any future course of action, but would indicate a sincere desire to reach a satisfactory solution of the problems...
...interest on this investment in another form; that is, by taxation." The earnest, bumbling Mayor took credit for having dismissed 8,000 city employes, for saving $15,000,000, even for Samuel Untermyer's four-year financial rehabilitation plan worked out with New York bankers. "I'm glad to be able to pass on to my children," he remarked a little forlornly, "the record of what I tried to do, putting in a full day's work and playing the game, playing a man's card, in bringing a ray of sunshine to those who fell...
...lecture his new detective; he must provide honorable exits for adulterous husbands; he must, in one moment, bluff a confession from some murderer, and, in the next, pat the shaggy head of a boy prodigy. This is the sort of thing which acting will ruin. But Mr. Stone is glad, as always, to remain Mr. Stone...
...important educational and financial problems which necessarily confront a new President, and that it would probably be many month before any action could be taken in regard to matters of interest to the undergraduate body. He stated that in the meanwhile either he or Dean Hanford would be very glad to discuss with the Student Council or individual undergraduates any subject that they wish to have considered