Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election results led to other oversimplifications. Said a Dutch milkman, hitching up his leather apron: "I am glad -my horse will get more Marshall oats...
...Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over...
...President seemed genuinely glad to be back. He acted like a man without a worry. He had one day of seclusion with his family in the big, ornately corniced house of Mrs. David Wallace, his mother-in-law. He ate a big turkey dinner, entertained his family with a couple of Chopin Nocturnes on the baby grand. Almost the entire day before election he spent with his fellow Shriners in Kansas City...
...wondrously clever, with a wit that snapped and crackled and never faltered through more than 20 novels. "His pages so teem with fine sayings and magniloquent epigrams, gorgeous images, and fantastic locutions," said Critic W. E. Henley, that "the mind would welcome a little dullness as a glad relief." Had he had the virtue of simplicity, in addition to his other talents, he might have been to English fiction what Shakespeare is to its poetry and drama...
When portly George P. Shaw, the new U.S. ambassador, deplaned in Managua last month, Nicaraguan reporters pounced on him for a statement. "Glad to be here," breezed Shaw in safe diplomatic language. Then he turned to an aide, boasted: "Well, I guess I'm going to get along all right with the Nicaraguan press...