Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British and other nondollar traders cheered what amounted-for them-to a 20% drop in Argentine prices. ECA officials, glad to see European countries get any kind of a break, agreed that the decrees were "a step in the right direction." But they scoffed at the Buenos Aires story that it was part of a big deal that would shoot ECA dollars into Argentina. That still waited for: 1) lower Argentine wheat and meat prices; 2) Argentine willingness to pay at least part of the estimated $475 million now owing to U.S. firms...
From Bulgaria's goat-bearded ex-King Ferdinand, ruler for 31 years and royal exile for 30 more, to Gus Phillips (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941), a Falls City, Neb. railroad engineer, went a letter: "On account of my great age [87] and rather poor health, I am very glad and thankful when my dear overseas friends send a CARE package to me. Perhaps you also could help me by such a parcel." Gus, who once knew Ferdinand's railroad-crazy late son Boris (he once sent Boris a streamlined model electric train and got a diamond stickpin...
...words, Are you honest? he is like a scalpel. He is a particular master of the sardonic, of complex reaction and low-keyed suffering, of princely sweetness and dangerousness of spirit, and of the mock-casual. On the invention of business, he is equally intelligent and imaginative. I am glad to see thee well is delivered with a pat on the head to a performing dog; Yorick's skull is poised with piercing ironic grace, cheek to cheek with his own living skull; the lost eyes stare into the audience as Hamlet says, very quietly...
...President a similar suggestion got a vastly different answer-a form letter signed by a White House secretary, which said: "The President has asked me to thank you for your letter of April 23. He has read it with interest, and wants you to know that he is always glad to receive suggestions such as yours...
...leading tenor was feuding with the conductor. Could the chaotic season be steadied by a singer whom Mexican operagoers especially liked? The Opera Nacional had persuaded Astrid to come down and try some popular Italian operas. As usual, Astrid, who had never sung an Italian role, was glad to help...