Word: glads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First stop was at Fort Morgan, Colo., where a thousand people and a brass band surrounded the rear platform. Carefully primed as to his whereabouts, Governor Landon declared: "I am very glad to have the opportunity of starting my campaign in this splendid Republican county of Morgan. . . . There are many things which I would like to talk to you about but time is short. . . ." Chuff-chuff-and the special was on its way to Sterling, where another crowd and another brass band turned out at the station. With "sugar beets" ringing in his ears, Nominee Landon stepped...
...Christopher Bullock last week implied, at the least, some sort of scandalous corruption somewhere. Nevertheless, because no permanent official of the Civil Service can well be charged with corruption without tarnishing its spotless record, Prime Minister Baldwin, after ordering Sir Christopher dismissed, made a ringing public announcement. "I am glad to observe," cried John Bull in the flesh, "that no question of corruption was involved...
...with the views of Charles Phelps Taft, public-spirited son of the 27th U. S. President. Before Young Republicans in Topeka one day last December, this Cincinnati lawyer appeared to discuss his civic lessons as they applied to national government. Governor Alf Landon, mightily impressed by the speech, was glad to shake the Taft hand, talk things over. Their minds met. Charlie Taft went home, expanded his speech into a 111-page book, You And I-And Roosevelt.* To Governor Landon he sent a copy inscribed: "To the man who fits the blueprint set forth in this little book." Cried...
...Francisco took the visiting dentists at their face value, bedecked the city with lavender & white bunting (A. D. A. colors), supplied special free trips to the two great bridges being constructed across San Francisco Harbor. The Glad Tiding Temple Bible Institute's motorized loudspeaker serenaded the dentists with the refrain: "Oh, when we all pull together, together, together, how happy we will be." At the dentists' main banquet the St. Francis Hotel presented a huge confection in the shape of a full denture, cookies shaped like molars...
...least a dozen newspapers." In November it was printed in the Topeka (Kansas) Capital. Topeka's Capper's Weekly also swallowed it. In December the Kansas City Journal-Post published it. By April Pledge Brown had reached Washington, where the rich and cautious Sunday Star was glad to buy his threadbare yarn...