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

In 1978 a London band called Morris and the Minors renamed themselves Madness after Buster’s classic song Madness is Gladness, and in 1978 their first single, The Prince, went straight into the top 20.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2016

A beautiful cage adorns his fair prize,    In hope that for him she will sing; But Freedom, that wafted her notes to the skies,    Bore Gladness away on its wing.

From The Expedition to Birting's Land and other ballads by Borrow, George Henry