Word: gladness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merit, not on flukes or fumbles. The possibility of the score doesn't interest me so much as the fact of the game itself. What pleases me is that Harvard, the oldest American university, has reached out over 2,000 miles from the Northeast and extended the glad hand of friendship to Texas, the oldest and largest university in the Southwest, and has said with a smile. 'Come let's be friends; come and have a game with us.' This is the first time, to my knowledge, that any one of the so-called 'Big-Four' of the East have...
Still uncompleted is the $4,000,000 Rockefeller-given Riverside Church of Manhattan. Last week Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who will be its pastor, gathered his flock into Temple Beth-El and there preached. Beth-El members now attend the new Emanu-El, and are therefore glad to accommodate the Christians by loaning them the vacated synagog...
...nezzed junior Senator, continued last week as Prohibition's bravest champion. Having complained that the District of Columbia is a pretty wet spot which the President of the U. S., as chief District officer, might easily dry, up and having elicited a White House statement ("The President is glad the Senator has raised the question") asking for specific charges (TIME, Sept. 30). Senator Howell arose again and said: ''It seems to me that the President was a little unfair . . . to call upon me 'to state definite facts, with time and place.' . . . I have not come...
...outburst was an offer to tell Mr. Rover, before a grand jury, all that Senator Brookhart knows or has heard about Wet Washington. Mr. Rover called at the Prohibition Bureau to see if there was sufficient evidence to warrant grand jury procedure. Mr. Rover said he would be "very glad" to have Senator Brookhart testify, but with everyone bearing in mind the motto "No more crusades," it seemed certain no great amount of evidence would be found, that any steps toward making Washington the "model" promised by President Hoover, would be quietly taken...
...first warm spell when spring fever is rampant? In the midst of February slush when even the boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There has not been time for the dull courses to reveal themselves and exams in the hard ones seem far away. The refreshing tang of the first cool days has not yet lost its novelty...