Word: gladness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battles his way back to the girl he loves, Hannah O'Molloy. They marry and there is a child. But the Frenchman finds his culture and cleanliness offended by her narrowness and rusticity. Then an Irishman elopes with Hannah. The Frenchman pursues them into the wilderness, is glad to find death instead...
Player Foxx, a 180-pounder just under six feet, has a chest expansion of 6½ inches. Like a majority of the Big League players, he is a small town (Sudlersville, Md.) boy. "I worked on a farm," he says, "and I am glad of it. Farmer boys are stronger than city boys. When I was 12 I could cut corn all day, help in the wheat fields, swing 200-pound bags of phosphate off a platform into a wagon. We had games on the farm to test strength and grip. A fellow had to plant both feet in half...
...White House. Billy is the Hoover opossum. In the spring the President lent Billy to the Hyattsville (Md.) High School as a mas cot. Hyattsville, thanks to Billy, won the county championships in soccer, basket ball, track, baseball. Wrote President Hoover to the school borrowers: "I am glad to have your report on the efficiency of Billy Opossum. . . . Precautions will be taken to preserve his health and spirits for the further needs of Prince Georges County high school teams...
Married. Gladys Glad, 21, "highest paid" showgirl (Whoopee, Rosalie, Rio Rita, No Foolin'); to Mark Hellinger, 31, newspaperman; in Manhattan. To a fellow newsman Mr. Hellinger wired: "When we get back from Hollywood you must come over and meet the wife?but not too often...
...engaged himself in many an effort at manufacturing substances which Nature has been niggardly in supplying. Last week came evidence of a notable triumph by Science over Nature. European producers of synthetic nitrogen had so completely destroyed Chile's semimonopoly of natural nitrates that the Chilean producers were glad to sign a price-fixing agreement. Headed by Germany's famed I. G. Farbenindustrie, the European nitrogen industry convincingly demonstrated the superiority of mind over matter. Prices of nitrate vary with each port of delivery. The immediate result of the international agreement will be a 5% reduction in prices...