WHEN Gordon Brown and Barack Obama meet in London on July 25th, there will be much glad-handing and convivial talk.
And according to his public campaign calendar of events, where 19 of the 31 days of October are blank, there will not be much glad-handing in the immediate future.
By the time I got into the office the next day, my column had been commissioned, there was much glad-handing and back-slapping and I had become some kind of poster boy for the middle-aged and disaffected.
There is so much glad-handing, so many media appearances and dinners and smiling and waving, that you must be both fit and energetic and sage enough to know when to delegate to those around you.
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"I hated being on that movie so much I was glad when it bombed," she said.
If it all seems too much, just be glad you didn't receive one of those cute miniature pigs.
Ennis went back to ranch work, hired on here and there, not getting much ahead but glad enough to be around stock again, free to drop things, quit if he had to, and go into the mountains at short notice.
I liked her very much and was glad to have spent the day with such a quality person.
For example, one participant remembered being told, " But y ou've got so much to be glad for".
