Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here we are doing what we can with what we have. I will be glad, however, when more substantial forces are placed at my disposition...
...Huddled with the newsmen in the bedroom, he asked them again & again: "What does it mean?" Was the nation more isolationist than he had thought? Had the Wisconsin voters repudiated his principles? Or him personally? He decided it was partly both. But he had no regrets. "I'm glad I made the fight," he said. "I'd do the same thing if I had it to do over again." At midnight he went...
...much commentary. A general high-surface of tact and politeness reduces the film's forces as a record of truth. Most unfortunate touch is the finale between the off-screen voices of a British and a U.S. soldier philosophizing vaguely about the postwar world, signing off with a glad, excruciating: "Wot a job! Bringin' back the smiles to kids' faces...
...House consists of a lot of rubber stamps. The Government is saying to the public, 'and we will prove it,' and that is unworthy." Slim, subdued Mrs. Cazalet Keir, who never dreamt of causing such commotion, was not dismayed. She had given her vote for confidence, was glad the Prime Minister was strengthened for "the stupendous days ahead," believed equal pay would...
Even before they had time to sleep or wipe the sweat, dirt and blood off their faces, a group of U.S. Marines was whisked straight from the fight on Eniwetok to somebody's idea of heaven: a movie. Dog-tired, they were glad enough to flop down anywhere. Suddenly on the wrinkled screen, smiling winsomely, glowed the features of Frank Sinatra. And soft against the battle-battered Marine eardrums throbbed Frank's velvet protestations of his love for them. There was a short, amazed, ecstatic silence; then the Marines yawped, groaned and moaned, "Frankie, Oh Frankie, Oh Frankie...