Word: gladness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said he: "The only persistent criticism of the Conservative Party at this election is that it is dull. I am accused of being unexciting and lacking in thrills! I am glad to feel that the complaint is true...
...appreciated by comparing the $8,800,000,000 new decided upon as the total due with the $21,000,000,000 that was fixed at the London conference of 1921. Evidently in their anxiety at seeing their prospects dwindle with every consideration of the problem, the creditor nations are glad to win Germany's consent to a sum greatly below their original hopes rather than have the matter remain any longer in doubt...
...glad of that, glad the whole War was long over and done with, when he last week took charge of a U. S. flying field named for one of the greatest U. S. aces, Major Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker...
...nothing" by other, more respected Manhattan journals carries small political weight. The arch-Democratic New York World expressed a preference for Mayor Walker over "some wholly mediocre Republican candidate," but warned that "if the Republican Party gives us a man of real stature and demonstrated ability, we shall be glad to give him all the support we can muster in the next election...
Just then he noticed that the car that had caused his misfortune was occupied. A benign old lady leaned out the window and informed him that if only her husband were there he would be very glad to help him. Next it developed that her husband would not be back until dark, for he had left her there while he fished a nearby brook. She was going on to quote statistics about the length of time various friends of hers had been stuck in that same mud-hole when down the hill clattered a Ford bearing the local representative...