Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cattle show. He answered their questions. No, he'd never been east of the Rockies before ... He didn't think Florida was as pretty as he'd heard it was . . . He didn't know whether he could hit big league pitching, but he was glad...
...Union. There is undoubtedly worse food around than the food dished out here. You can use that for whatever cheer it might afford. Even next year the food won't be much better. If you have any suggestions along the culinary line the Student Council will be glad to handle them. The University will also be glad to ignore them...
...first set against Adrian Quist, Ted Schroeder found a cannonball service ("I don't know where it came from, but I'm glad it came") and the violently accurate volley that had deserted him all season, and won 6-3. In the second set, he lapsed into his old erratic play, lost 4-6 to Quist's heady tennis. In the third game of the third set, Quist moved in to the net, won a brilliant volley, but ended up on the seat of his pants. The crowd's applause turned to "Aah" (Forest Hills...
...letter was nearly done. "It is said that in the last moments of one's life one thinks of all the bad things. I feel better in that I had my wish in learning of your safe return to Greenwich -you were so wonderful-understanding -I'm glad the newspapers gave you a decent report ... I can perhaps feel that as my last thoughts didn't turn up a lot of bad that I wasn't too bad in life . . . which God knows is more than bad enough." He added a postscript, "What a nice stamp...
Brother Crawford was glad he didn't have to make a speech, for it would have been a deception. Brother Crawford was a man with a dark secret. In four weeks and 4,000 miles of travel through the South, nobody guessed that he was really Ray Sprigle, free, white and 61, and the shrewdest reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's staff...