Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's week was, in many ways, as comfortably old-fashioned as his heating arrangements. Not in many a moon had he glad-handed so many people-from turbaned, bearded Most Rev. Dr. Mar Ivanios, Catholic Archbishop of Trivandrum, Travancore, India, to Eddie Jacobson, the Kansas City haberdasher who used to be Harry Truman's partner...
...Fast, Too Far. The only basic differences between Hull and Roosevelt cropped up in domestic matters. Hull remembered those differences with a wince. "I was frankly glad not to be invited into the White House groups where so often the 'liberal' game was played on an extreme basis." He once said to Roosevelt: "I can't help but feel that you're going too fast and too far with certain of your domestic reforms...
...onetime watch-engraver's apprentice, wry, wiry Le Corbusier (born Charles Edouard Jeanneret) had designed his first house by the time he was 18. When no one would listen to his new theories ("Men are so stupid, I'm glad I'm going to die"), he shocked them into attentiveness. "Should we burn down the Louvre?" he once asked Paris. He told New Yorkers that their skyscrapers were too small. Rome's architecture, he said, is "the damnation of the half educated...
President and Mrs. Lowell will be at home and glad to see all men who are students in the University at their home, 17 Quincy street, tomorrow afternoon between 4 and 6 o'clock...
...never actually worn (he disapproves of elaborate ceremonies). Then Gustaf V, King of Sweden, of the Goths and the Wends, began his speech from the throne. It was a comfortable occasion. His Majesty had delivered substantially the same speech 40 times before, and 40 times his subjects had been glad to hear it. "Our relations with other nations," the King said in his accustomed phrase, "are good...