Word: gladness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faculty of the University of London and is now for the second time a British Cabinet Minister, fidgeted nervously between his sponsors, Lord Parmoor and Lord Ashfield, who introduced him to the assembled Peers. After his sponsors he quickly mumbled the Peers' oath into his beard, was glad to start back to his seat. His nervousness was so contagious that all three Lords got lost among the benches, had to be rescued by the colorful Garter King of Arms, who looks like the Jack of Hearts...
...politely. Also present were a Mrs. Bacon, a Mrs. Kelly, a Mrs. Free, whose husbands are U. S. Representatives from New York, Pennsylvania and California, respectively, and many another lady of Washington's officialdom. The guest in the blue chiffon gown with moonlight hose and snakeskin slippers was glad to meet them all because she felt that she belonged among them. She was Mrs. Oscar De Priest, the wife of a new U. S. Representative from Illinois. Mrs. De Priest's husband is the first Negro to sit in Congress since 1900. She was the first...
...Hero: Glad...
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...weekly papers count for practically nothing. The real question is this: is the final examination fairly weighted as equivalent to nine weekly papers? If you think that either more or less weight should be assigned to the final examination than is assigned under our present practice, I should be glad to know what change you deem desirable, together with your reasons. Sincerely yours, A. N. Holcombe