Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallace: "I have never felt I was primarily a political figure, but I am glad to be recognized as having some competence in that field...
...last minute under pressure has agreed to put it off. It seems he has a good poker hand very much in demand next term. Bill Patrick, the man with the embarrassing memory, wishes to make a public statement to the effect that slips will occur and he'll be glad to offer his services as defense counsel at any board meeting...
...glad news apparently leaked. For when Union Oil began negotiations for a contract with the Paraguayan Government, it met stiff competition from British and U.S. companies, and from the Argentine Government. Finally, the company signed a complicated agreement. It would pay an annual rental, and would give Paraguay up to 15% of any oil it produced...
...class will be an annual event, accompanied by all the ceremonial of a present-time speech day. A tube railway will be needed to connect its sixth-form rooms with the nearest university. The marvelous efficiency of such a school will shriek to high heaven and yet-right glad am I to think that a beneficent providence has ensured that I shall not be called upon to act as the smallest cog in its gargantuan machinery...
...next hundred years is likely to be a very uncomfortable time, not I hope for everybody, but certainly for the class to which I have the misfortune to belong. It is the educated middle class, in which many may be glad to escape to the new communities, which need not be celibate. Some will be on a religious basis, others devoted to research, et cetera. . . . The park surrounding the house may be turned into farms and gardens, to be worked by the inmates. In this way the institutions may be selfsupporting...