gladness

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He is a Vietnamese refugee whose mother and grandmother brought him to the fictional town of East Gladness, Conn., in the wake of the Vietnam War and the destruction it wrought.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025

Craig Morgan Teicher is the author, most recently, of a collection of essays, “We Begin in Gladness: How Poets Progress.”

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2018

Ever since Hokulea, which means Star of Gladness, first sailed from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1976, it sparked a revival of Polynesian voyaging throughout the Pacific.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2018

Golden State signed free agent center Mickell Gladness to a 10-day contract.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2012

Ardent love of nature found expressive utterance in "Lines on Revisiting the Country," "The Gladness of Nature," "A Summer Ramble," "A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson," and "The Evening Wind."

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry