Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey was at pains to disarm any suspicion that he still had ambitions for the presidency. He was glad to be in Washington for a visit, he declared. "At one time last year, I expected to come for a longer stay. I was under the impression, which was shared by a great many others, that I had a clear call to duty. But last November it turned out to be some other kind of noise. Instead ... I have been graduated at a comparatively early age to the role of elder statesman, which someone has aptly defined as a politician...
...Sulphur (Okla.) ranch of Roy Turner, now governor of Oklahoma. As Rupert approached adolescence, his general shape and beefiness (as well as his distinguished ancestry) gave promise that he would develop into a bull of bulls. On Jan. 10, 1944, he was sold, unproven, to Glad Acres Farms at Dallas for $38,000-a record for white-faced Herefords...
...Glad Acres reported that Rupert was a failure. He was not "reluctant," as some cattlemen have called him. His attitude toward cows was normal, but he was sterile...
Back to Turner went Rupert in disgrace; and back to Glad Acres went $38,000 plus $3,000 for transportation and other costs. Saddened but not discouraged, Turner sent Rupert to Kansas State College, where he got the full treatment of modern veterinarian vitalizing. After seven months, Rupert returned to his home ranch, full of penicillin, assorted hormones and vitamin C. But he was still sterile...
...Eliot, 60, got a nice hand from one of his elders. "I think we all ought to be glad," observed Somerset Maugham, 75, "to have lived long enough to read his poetry...