Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glad to see that Mr. Jon P. C. Train finds the Student Council's concern with discrimination in the College amusing. This confirms an old opinion that the members of the Lampoon see humor in things which are not at all funny to other people...
What Florenz Ziegfeld brought to Broadway and Tabasco sauce to the raw oyster, the Rev. William H. Alexander brought to religion in Oklahoma City. He put zing into churchgoing. A strapping, handsome redhead with a rousing voice and a glad hand, the Rev. Bill installed pool tables, bowling alleys and card games for the kids. He let himself be chucked into the lake summers at the First Christian Church men's outing, and he wrestled all comers on the grass. He was not above presiding at public rallies in an old turtleneck sweater...
...July 1906, Walter Sherman Gifford, then 21 and two years out of Harvard, wrote his father the glad news of his promotion to assistant secretary & treasurer of Western Electric Co. Salary: $24 a week. Snapped the elder Gifford, a fiercely independent Yankee lumberman: "Any damn fool can make a success in a corporation...
...need to say how glad I am we will never have to swim against Smyly again," quoth Ulen
...course, but it looks like a good thing for whole year too. Some people go to bed at 11 or 11:30, and when they take a book from a House library, they read it for only half an hour or so before falling asleep. People who would be glad to read for a couple of hours more thus get no chance at the book. Under the Adams plan books would still be in the library for use after the early shift quits for the night. The new system would also provide a study room during the term...