Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be glad to know that we got a letter from Mr. Thomas A. Edison's private secretary Meadowcroft. He said that Mr. Edison liked our paper very much. We also had a letter from the Governor of our territory, George A. Parks. I was especially glad to get the letter from Edison's Laboratories as I would rather be a helper of Edison than anything else in the world...
...opera pavilion, but still near enough to hear perfectly), there came people in shirt sleeves as well as gentry in starched collars and decollete. First performance was a novelty: Gioa-chino Rossini's highly difficult William Tell which Chicago had not heard since 1919. Ravinia fans were glad to hear once more Elisabeth Rethberg as Mathilde, plump soprano daughter of Tyrant Gessler, and Giovanni Martinelli as her lover Arnold, heroic tenor patriot. Soprano Rethberg's bright Saxon face will soon be tanned dark beneath her pink & white makeup, for each year she takes a house near the lake...
...Season. She will have been to the Private View of the Royal Academy, to Ascot, to at least one of the Courts, and her flowered garden party frocks (indispensable to London ladies in the Season) will have been put through a strenuous series of functions. She will be glad when she can get off to the country, for during these three days she will find her hands full with taking her nephew to teashops, grill-rooms, music halls. After the last ball has been bowled at Lord's, she will chaperone at the Eton-Harrow dance at Hurlingham...
...edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes to London; when she does, Sylvia Townsend Warner and many another writer are glad to see her. Other books: The Love Child, As Far As Jane's Grandmother's, The Triumphant Footman...
...Scott arrived back in England. His time from Australia was 10 days, 23 hr.-nearly two days better than Kingsford-Smith's record for that direction. Ill from exhaust fumes, scorched by sun, wind and engine heat, Lieut. Scott said: "It is too far and I am really glad it is all over...