Word: exultant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...misted, drizzled and poured, but the Brown Derby waved from the Battery to Central Park at cheering, milling millions. In the evening, Madison Square Garden was a tornado of noisy, militant affection. Unlike his opponent under similar circumstances, Governor Smith was at ease. He let his people exult, exulted with them. When he was ready, he hushed them. When he was through speaking he stayed among them, shaking his own hands to them all, hailing individuals, happy in tumult...
...more worth than a few double-edged remarks as to the functions of the Apostolic Delegate in Washington. The public knows that in spite of the assertions of Messrs Mills and Roosevelt New York is a well-run state, but a certain portion of the voting public will always exult a mention of the vague menace which might somehow be said to emanate from the Vatican...
Before long the old indictment that we are a "nation of economic illiterates" will not apply. Harvard may well be proud of her most recent addition across the Charles and exult in her utter modernity...
...Duce had come to tell the assembled Fascists that Genoa's commerce has recently outstripped that of Marseilles, heretofore the most important Mediterranean port. He had come to exult over the fact that Italy is now constructing more ships* than any other nation except Britain.? He had come to fire Italian hearts with the purpose to make of the Mediterranean an Italian lake...
When he rose exulting in the air, propelled by the toe of the valiant Ropes, looking like the war-angle sounding the onset and hovering o'er the mingling fray, we little thought then, that today he would lie so low, surrounded by weep-ing "Sophs." Exult ye Freshmen, and clap your hands! The wise men who make big laws around a little table, have stretched out their arms to encircle you, and for this once at least, your eyes and noses are protected, you are shielded behind by the aegies of Minerva...