Word: glads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night while Artist Lewis worked feverishly on his portrait, which shows him looking dark and bitter in a grey-blue suit. When the picture was rejected he wrote to Lewis: "The portrait is one by which I am quite willing posterity should know me. . . . But I am glad to think that a portrait of myself is not to appear in the exhibition of the Royal Academy." Last week black-hatted, black-witted Wyndham Lewis (The Apes of God) turned up as a critic at the Academy's socialite preview and enjoyed himself among the stiff Coronation portraits. Artist John...
...that missionary labors tire now not unappreciated in high places. In a speech to missionaries in Hankow, Mme Chiang Kai-shek revealed that her husband, as a gesture of gratitude, had lifted an eleven-year ban upon compulsory religious courses in Chinese mission schools. Said she: "I am very glad to tell you that those who criticized you and criticized Christianity in years past are the ones who are articulate now in their praise of Christianity. . . . You have shown what true, practical Christianity means in its widest sense...
Replied Franklin Roosevelt in a letter to Commissioner Hanes: "I wish you would thank each of the 16 signers for me personally and tell them if they have any specific suggestions ... I will be glad to receive them...
...fact that certain features of the dealer business were interstate in character and therefore outside State regulation. Gardner Withrow's proposal was that the Federal Trade Commission investigate monopolistic features of the relations between automobile manufacturers and dealers. Congress passed the resolution last month and Franklin Roosevelt, always glad to investigate monopoly, quickly signed...
...wasn't on my conscience," snapped Thomas Lamont. "I had faith that Richard Whitney, despite what he had done, would come through in character all right. I was glad his brother had gone to his rescue. His brother had faith in him. Everybody had faith in him. . . . We have been very sorely mistaken...