Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After her marriage Chris tried to drown himself in work. He went abroad for a few months' study in Vienna, marrying Katie and taking her along, not because he wanted her but because she nagged him into it. She soon got tired of him, and he was glad to leave her for the War. Back home again, he became a hardworking, successful surgeon, an aging Spartan boy with a greying fox in his bosom. When an accident ruined his right arm, Katie left him. Meantime Beverly's wrong husband had died, so at last their tragicomedy of errors...
...reply, I beg to state that, if you will furnish this office with a letter of recommendation from the Democratic chairman of your county or Reynolds' manager, I will be more than glad to take your case up with the Works Progress Administration in Watauga County and do everything I can in an effort to help you. This procedure is followed in all instances...
...Baldwin Cabinet, benign old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood promptly rose to complain: "It seems to me utterly ridiculous! Everything that has happened in the past two months has been recorded in the Press, and I fail to see why it should not be shown in the films." Always glad of a chance to blast any kind of censor ship, London editors found themselves in agreement with Viscount Cecil. "This time the film censorship has really passed all bounds," cried the Daily Herald. "Such dictatorship possesses a quality which can only be described as impertinence." "The cuts are obviously designed...
...never tuck in the bedclothes. Wilson's stay in Russia brought out his U. S. patriotism, made him feel that Americanism was different from everything European not in degree but in kind. After weeks of scarlet fever and quarantine in an old-fashioned hospital in Odessa he was glad to be leaving Russia. Nevertheless the U. S. S. R. impressed him: the kindliness of the people, the devotion of the minority of patriots who are working to bring the Russian experiment to success. Says he: "Only idiots gush about Russia. Only idiots pretend that life there is easy . . . whomever...
First was Yachtsman E. F. McDonald Jr. They were glad to see him. because they were short of medicine and supplies. But his radioed report attracted a storm of publicity to their hideout; next came copycatting settlers; then the journalists. One family came with an expectant mother, because they knew Dr. Ritter would be able to help her confinement. Most of the "settlers" were only visitors, but one fine day, when Dore and Dr. Ritter had been three years on Floreana. Satan herself arrived in their homespun Eden. She came in the guise of a German baroness of dubious antecedents...