Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back from Europe last week was what had actually happened at the Cannes carnival last month when someone who looked exactly like him doused the mayor of Cannes with champagne. Said John Roosevelt: "I haven't found out yet who it was. . . . I'll be awfully glad to see the Old Man. ... By the way, where...
Last fortnight, Governor Ammons proclaimed that he was glad the records were out at last. Said he: "It was a cowardly trick and a plot designed to injure me." Lawyer Ellis, Reporter Sweet and Detective Gilmore announced that District Attorney Carroll had censored the records before making them public but, having caused scores of Colorado politicians to shiver in their boots for half-a-year, the vigilantes slyly added: "No one has ever bothered to ask but as a matter of fact we never contended the microphone records, outside of disclosing the duplicity of politicians and their faithlessness, contained evidence...
...train and hired a rattletrap automobile to speed her arrival. "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! ... I am Here," she announced to the "mythical" New Mexico landscape. Soon tired of Santa Fe, where the people were "too eager and cordial" ('"Why," she said, "should they be so glad to see me?"), she found in the village of Taos, 75 mi. from Santa Fe, what she was looking for. She rented the wing of a big house owned by a rich, eccentric Englishman, who warned her against Indians and savagely slandered the few other whites in Taos, most of whom...
...Congressmen are glad to get out of broiling Washington, go home in the summer. In Mexico, Congressmen are glad to escape from the broiling lowlands to cool Mexico City and go to work in the summer. Last week diplomats in gold braid, commercial attaches in morning clothes packed the balcony of Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies to hear President Lazaro Cardenas open the regular session of Mexico's 37th Congress. Senators, Deputies, who disdain formal dress as not in keeping with the nation's "social revolution," attended in street clothes...
...loomed on the Nevada scene with a big stack of blue chips. He let it be known that he had regained control of Hotels Riverside and Golden and stood to make considerable on a new mine. When his personal crash came, "King George'' had found others as glad to grubstake him as he had always been to grubstake the down-&-out. State Senator Noble Getchell gave him a half interest in a low-grade surface mine near Winnemucca where they are now building a gold mill due to begin operations about the first of the year. Board Chairman...