Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kill me! Kill me!" screamed the Russian, tearing his collar from his neck and wrenching his shirt open. "Kill me as you killed my country! ... I am committing suicide. I am glad to leave this earth...
...Templeton might treat her old mother more generously. It did not greatly disturb Mrs. Harris or Mrs. Templeton. Old Mrs. Harris remembered her big house in Tennessee whence the family had moved West. She took a quiet interest in the doings of her grandchildren, Victoria, Ronald, Adelbert. She was glad when Mrs. Rosen came over from next door to have a chat. When Mrs. Harris felt that she was going to die. she accepted this fact also with the wise fortitude which her daughter and granddaughter would have to await their own senility to acquire...
...dowager who bears an increasing resemblance to her father, John Davison Rockefeller, was installed in a four-room suite at Chicago's Drake Hotel last week. The rooms, overlooking Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan's wave-rimmed shore, were so expensive that many persons would be glad to call them "home." But to Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick the move was a heartbreaking acquiescence to the condition she always speaks of as "the change." Once worth 40, 50, perhaps 60 million dollars, last week in her 60th year she found her tremendous fortune largely vanished...
...garden party at Buckingham Palace Queen Mary espied famed Helen Adams Keller, blind & deaf leader, asked that she be presented. Through Miss Keller's companion, who tapped the message into her palm, Her Majesty said: "I am so glad you were able to come to our party. . . ." In the August Atlantic Monthly Author Keller poked fun at Big Business by picturing a tycoon in complete charge of his household. The tycoon begins by baking ten cakes at once rather than let oven-heat go to waste, then coaxes his children to eat more than is good for them...
...find nobody black as me that's less suprastitious." Says Jinx: "Just say you won't find anyone as black as you and stop. . . ." The Conjure-Man Dies is also probably the first detective story in which the characters sing an appropriate song: "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal...