Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glad Hands. In 1911 "Sunny Jim" Rolph sailed into the mayoralty in a ten-gallon hat and polished cowboy boots. He stayed there for 19 years, and in those years the city grew up. Up climbed the buildings. Up climbed industry, shipping, finances, while "Sunny Jim" ran things with a glad hand. When "Sunny Jim" left to become governor, he passed the mayoralty to Florist Angelo Rossi, who sailed into office with a carnation in his lapel...
...England are not hungry; our trouble is a diet of monotony. Even so, we are glad to share what we have with our neighbors across the Channel, knowing that theirs is an urgent need...
...comes to the decision as to which should be kept from starving, naturally, if I make the decision, it will be the people. . . . I don't know whether that will please you or not. . . . Some time when you have reached a cooling-off period, I'd be glad to talk with you about the whole situation." Scrawled across the bottom of the typewritten page, in the President's hand, was the command invitation: "Come...
...would have made trips in 20 million automobiles. But for all this brave show, motoring in 1946 was not unlike motoring in the day of the Stutz Bearcat. Motors failed. Tires collapsed. Lodgings were hard to find. Many a family took a tent and a gasoline stove and were glad of it; all learned to hunt tourists camps at noon, get up before dawn to start driving...
Like any other tired executive, Harry Truman had been glad to escape for a few hours. He had spent a monotonous week plowing through his workbaskets and the daily round of presidential chores. After the picnic, he spent the rest of the week end at Franklin Roosevelt's old Shangri-La hideout at Thurmont...