Word: gloating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman Rankin could afford to gloat. To make revenge doubly sweet, he had a ready-made way of forcing the House to go on record: a new rule (TIME, Jan. 10), aimed originally at obstructionists like John Rankin, which permits any committee chairman to bring out a bill after the Rules Committee has pigeonholed it for 21 days...
Around here it is the custom to gloat for long paragraphs over the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Of all the major orchestras in the country, only this one has a great place in the hearts of the local populace; only this one is a center of aesthetic endeavour. But once it has been said that Koussevitzky's group is the finest symphony orchestra in the world, that...
...indictment against a whole people.' "We cannot support the thesis that be cause German leaders acted illegally, therefore they should be treated illegally. Two wrongs do not make a right. It is easy to understand why Mussolini was lynched; it is more difficult to see why Americans should gloat over...
John O'Donnell, Washington columnist for the New York Daily News, who hates the New Deal and loves to gloat, found something to gloat about last week. Having just read a supplement to the ardently internationalist New Republic taxing Thomas E. Dewey with onetime isolationist leanings and general inconsistency in foreign policy, Columnist O'Donnell had dug out of the files a 1935 statement by the same weekly. After noting current proposals for new U.S. armaments, it said...
...deed, he warned, "would rankle in the memory of every good European as did Rome's destruction by the Goths." Lord Lang of Lambeth (see p. 56), 79-year-old retired Archbishop of Canterbury, seconded the Bishop. Lord Lang was distressed by a tendency to "exult and gloat" over the bombings of Germany. He feared that this attitude would result in "a lamentable lapse" in Britons' outlook...