Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman seemed glad for the interruption in routine when a cluster of Hollywood and radio stars, helping out the Infantile Paralysis Fund campaign, dropped in for lunch. He cheerfully obeyed cameramen's shouted commands, had a long chat with bright-eyed Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien...
...would be glad to get back-as a man who dearly loves Britain, he often says regretfully that he has "slept few nights at home in the last ten years." When he leaves, the U.S. will get another topnotch diplomat in his place. Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr,* polished, informal veteran of a dozen capitals on four continents, will come to Washington as soon as he winds up the peacemaking mission he has been assigned in Java...
...industrial Cleveland, where more than 42,000 men & women were out at the steel, auto and electric plants, the most talked-of strike involved 200 A.F. of L. pressmen on the city's three newspapers, shut down since Jan. 5. Leaders of the other strikes were glad: they were sure the papers would be blasting them...
...week the N.E.A.'s ethics committee met in Washington, offered Johnson a chance to testify (which he refused). Then, for the first time in its 76-year history, the N.E.A. solemnly fired a member for "flagrant violations" of its code. Said Kelly's Johnson: "I'm glad they've had their little Roman holiday...
...Lynde Elliot May III, 40, entered the Navy in November 1942, served as a "flotilla chaplain" during the invasion of Southern France and elsewhere in the ETO, was discharged in November 1945. The experience as a padre he valued and would not have missed, but he was "darned glad to get back" to the tranquillity of his parish and to his own job. Ex-Chaplain May admitted that the humdrum routine of parochial life took some getting used to. In a parish a high percentage of problems falls into a groove, whereas in the Navy the kinds of problems...