Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced, square-shouldered, out spoken. Virgin Islanders like him. A month ago he wanted some livestock for his dominion. Last week some of the cor respondence which occurred during the transaction was made known. Said the Governor of the Virgin Islands to the Chief of Naval Operations : WOULD BE GLAD TO HAVE FOR ST. CROIX ONE MILKING SHORT HORN BULL OLD ENOUGH FOR SERVICE AT EXPERIMENT STATION. . . . ONE HOLSTEIN BULL MILKING STRAIN, TWELVE SINGLE COMB WHITE HENS OR PULLETS AND TWO SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS. HOGS NOT NEEDED. Replied the Chief of Naval Operation to the Governor...
...myself that had our plans succeeded it would have been foreign imperialists and a handful of rich emigres who would have reaped the spoils, not we. We were their tools and we would not have got five kopeks on their ruble promises. I admit I tried, and I AM GLAD I FAILED-let the Court judge me as it will...
...United Press for Reporter Lyons' scoop, least expected perhaps were those from the New York Daily News, lusty younger brother of the Chicago Tribune, whose correspondents have long been barred from Soviet Russia for their truculence. Said the News in a lengthy editorial, "We're glad to have the United Press' help in gathering the news which is printed in this paper...
...Commented Novelist Lewis: "I am particularly honored that the attack came from where it did." Then he sailed for Sweden to receive his $46,350. Said he: "Naturally I felt that some day I would get this recognition, but I did not know when. I should be just as glad if Eugene O'Neill had received it. . . . I'd have felt the same way about Ernest Hemingway. He'll get it some day, but I suppose he hasn't written enough yet. I think Hemingway will get the award in ten years. Then there is Willa...
...fund was successfully procured was made known yesterday by Lamont, who said that "the money is merely so much back pay, and is not charity or a gift. The fact that it will be paid on Christmas is merely a coincidence." He added that many Harvard men "were glad to make right" what they deemed an injustice and a blot on Harvard's reputation...