Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, bald, stringy . as ever, the "Chance" seemed to many an alumnus no older. To Justice McReynolds he spryly observed: "I should be very glad if I could get on the same platform with you and run for President and Vice President. I have a suspicion that such a combination would be successful." But his voice cracked as he recited to his guests...
...know," said he, "Mr. van Zeeland is simply coming to this country to get a degree from Princeton. Of course if he should come to Washington, I would be very glad to see him." Not for an instant did Washington wiseacres believe it was as simple as all that. They are firmly convinced not only that Premier van Zeeland has an ulterior motive in coming to the U. S. to get his honorary degree from Princeton, but that President Roosevelt is responsible for bringing him. Vaguely, but with conviction, the wiseacres talk about the Oslo Group...
...great novelty in U. S. restaurants are the little cards which read "NO TIPPING. Our waiters are glad to serve you without gratuities," and which usually add gentle preachment about the dignity of man. But news would be any nation where tipping was against the national law, big news if that nation were France, tourist playground of the world, synonym for good food and good service rewarded via the outstretched palm. Last week Léon Blum, reaching the end of his first year as Premier-a year which he said was notable for "the restoration of human dignity...
...Because I was glad to be alive," he wrote, "I bought more handkerchiefs than I needed. . . . Another shell broke in the street, and this time we heard a boy screaming six or eight times, each time weaker than the last. . . . 'Show me some scarfs,' I said to the clerk...
These visits of leading contemporary radicals are distinctly in the Harvard tradition. They show that the old university is vigorously alive to the developments of the day, that it is not afraid to face the new, and that, strong in the learning of the past, it is glad to hear and to appraise the ideas of the present...