Word: glads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andrews and Mrs. Frankensteen liked each other, too, and in the summer of 1935 the two families took a vacation cottage together at a lake. Andrews invited his elderly millionaire uncle, a retired play producer named Bath, to join them. The Frankensteens were glad of it. Andrews' uncle took them to roadhouses, bought them champagne, brought toys to their children. So generous was he that their vacation cost the two young friends hardly a cent except for rent and food...
...Grand Ducal Art School at Weimar. He attracted a group of young students interested in functional, non-eclectic building design and in the economic, social and philosophical ideas that went with it. Early Nazi activity in Weimar made the town too hot for him; in 1925 Director Gropius was glad when the city of Dessau offered funds and a site for a long, barrack-like dormitory and school building which Gropius called the Bauhaus (Building House...
...medical examination with a set of notes in his pocket, not to peek at but in the hope that their contents might soak through his skin. Last week was in many a U. S. college the week of midyear examinations and woolly-headed students were glad to get any kind of last-minute cramming advice...
...Lonsdale celebrated his 80th birthday by describing how in 1879 he "most certainly" outboxed the late, great Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan. Famed for his loud habit of bawling to British traffic policemen, "Can't you see I'm LONSDALE!", the loud Peer boasted: "I shall be glad to give any details I can of my encounter with 'Jim' Sullivan. ... I knocked him out in just under six rounds. I had a broken hand when I did it. . ... It was kept a most extraordinary secret." Leftist voters of Lille elected to fill the French Chamber seat...
...Glad to share his publicity, four U. S. airlines got together, concocted an annual award for the nation's No. i air traveler. To Musician Kostelanetz went a silver mug for flying 126,000 miles in 1936, more than any one of the other 1,140,000 passengers. More significant last week were two other prizes presented for the first time -the Lawrence B. Sperry Award and Aviation magazine's Maintenance Award...