Word: gladness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noses and shooting questions. "And where are you going, young man?" he asked a scared, blond youth. "Essen, eh? Just came here to visit your parents. Where do they live? American sector, eh? How did you get here?" The youth hesitated. "Illegally, eh?" chuckled Klein. "But you are very glad that you can now go back in comfort on such a good train, aren't you? That's fine. And now a few words from Herr Kreikmeyer, president of the railways...
Artist Bishop freely admits her subject-matter is limited. "I try to limit content, to limit everything," she explains, "in order to get down to something in my work. You know, I'm glad this isn't one of the great periods of art. I could never paint a great subject, and the fun about painting today is that we don't have to. We can paint the little things, things that perhaps no one noticed before...
...firing. On.the contrary, said the Supervisors, Stoke had been doing such a fine job that they wanted to give him a formal vote of confidence. In case anyone had any doubts about the future of Harold Stoke, the board had a word from Earl Long: "I am glad to leave to your judgment," said the governor, "the administration of L.S.U. I have never interfered and will not interfere with the selection of those to head the university...
...Prerogative. Doughty Sir Thomas himself had no intention of disappointing anyone. Boomed he: "I intend to make a bigger noise than ever ... I believe in the free use of an unbridled tongue. I am glad I have one." Earlier in the week, he had proved it still wagged without rein. Looking like a ferocious teddy-bear, he interrupted a Mozart concert to glower at his Glyndebourne audience, tell them to stop stomping out the beat. Said he: "I feel this is a prerogative which in this instance must be left to me." A few days later, he showed the Liverpool...
When he heard the glad news, Slick Airways' President Earl F. Slick took some employees out to his ranch near San Antonio for a big barbecue. In Los Angeles, the Flying Tiger Line's President Robert W. Prescott, 35, was equally elated. Said he: "We have finally dropped the curse of the unwashed...