Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Baden-Powell's "Boy Scouts of the World." Improper and ill at ease were 800 members of the Mussolini Balilla (substitute for Italy's suppressed Boy Scouts) and 60 Hitler Youth Boys. When Nazis suppressed the German Boy Scouts last June, B.P. exclaimed: "I am very glad! The German Boy Scouts were not attached to us. They were military. We are unmilitary and unpolitical-just Boy Scouts and nothing more!" Last week Lord Baden-Powell, referring to the defunct World Monetary & Economic Conference, cried from his conqueror's tent: "Old men have failed in all their...
...sheaf of Bank of England notes, accounts in one British and nine U. S. banks. A bachelor, he divided most of his $10,000,000 hoard between the American Philosophical Society and the Geological Society of America. The latter body long pondered what to do with its income, was glad to help the floundering...
Down to the footlights in a Los Angeles theatre stepped corpulent Baritone David L. Hutton, husband of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, whom he is suing for divorce. He smirked to the audience: "I'm very glad to be back in the City of the Angels. You know, I married an angel." When he opened his mouth to sing, Whiz! went an egg hurled by a girl in the front row. Plop! a second egg spattered against the backdrop, dribbled down to the floor. Plop! Plop! Plop! Baritone Hutton lumbered off stage. As stage hands mopped up the eggs...
...students ideas about the six-week term, the CRIMSON Summer Supplement published last week a questionnaire which in spite of a number of wits furnished some valuable information. Of the 137 blends which were answered in the spirit intended all but eight put after the question, Are you glad you came...
Gyrations of the stockmarket had made Coolidge the saint of prosperity and Hoover the scapegoat of hard times. Their Democratic successor professed to be completely indifferent to stocks' ups & downs. In fact President Roosevelt seemed almost glad about last week's shoot-the-chutes. He felt that values had been climbing at an abnormally rapid rate, with speculators whooping up prices for quick easy profits. This rise had hampered the progress of the New Deal. Industries, beguiled by "prosperity" stock quotations, were reluctant to submit recovery codes to Washington. A thoroughgoing deflation of overspeculation seemed wholesome and proper...