Word: exultant
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...went off gold (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) has now produced a nationwide "inflation boom." Silk raisers who received about 1,500 yen per bale of raw silk in 1929 and were forced last July to sell at the "panic price" of 450 yen, now get 900 yen and exult that "silk prices have doubled in the last half year...
...liquor traffic" had cracked, they were helpless to stem the ensuing flood. Their six-vote victory over Repeal in a nominally Dry House was a portent of defeat in the coming Wet one. The Wets, on top for the first time as a result of the election, did not exult too loudly. Responsibility was sobering even the most rampant anti-Prohibitors...
This interesting concession to Germany enabled Chancellor von Papen to exult: "Germany has regained her economic independence, thus bringing a New Era to Germany, Europe and the World!" That is, the so-called "mortgage" on the German State Railways is to be lifted...
...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...