Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter a Manchester Guardian correspondent attended a Berlin meeting of the German People's Church. He reported it noisy, enthusiastic, a theological free-for-all. Its members sang the Horst Wessel song, interrupted the speakers with shouts of gleeful agreement. When a Dr. Krause made the usual reference to "pimps and cattle-dealers." they cried "Filth! Laute Schweinereien! Loud swinishness!" When another speaker advocated that preachers of the teaching of "Rabbi" (Saint) Paul should be thrown out, they cried "to Oranienburg!" ? Germany's most famed concentration camp. When the same speaker dubbed the doctrine of atonement, "racially alien...
...funny about war? What is funny about Bubonic Plague? The CRIMSON'S campaign of advertising and publicity for the crowd of peanut brains who disrupted Friday's meeting was nicely calculated to attract all the lunatic fringe to turn out in expectation of a royal Roman holiday. The gleeful reporting fraternity and cameramen cooperated to make the flasco a howling success. The University had given the National Students League permission to hold the meeting; it had not given such permission to the counter-demonstration. Therefore the University is utterly to blame for not instructing the Yard police to break...
...Municipal Airport just as the opening parade was getting under way. Practiced showman that he is, Turner, the hometown boy, could not have timed his triumphant entry more dramatically. The crowds in the stands (48,000) went wild with delight as he kicked his ship up in a gleeful chandelle, a winner. His time: 11 hr. 30 min. Less than a half-hour later Jimmy Wedell himself tore across the finish line, adding second honors to first for his ships. No other planes finished the race. Where were the Gee-Bee's? They had come to grief...
...chair and a pistol like famed Lion-tamer Clyde Beatty, but with his friends training rifles on the beasts, "this is the biggest moment of my life." The lions stood up, yawned, slunk out. Seven hounds cowered and whined. Off into the thick willows wandered the lions. Hunter Wright, gleeful, promised them a four-hour start, suggested lunch. At this point he found Newshawk Chesley busily taking photographs. Newshawk Goldstein complaining about the loss of his plates, threatening to break his rival's camera. "Please!'' begged Hunter Wright...
...audience was agreeably large, it was in part one of the worst that has over well night spoiled a perfect evening in the theatre. Pathos and tragedy were greeted with titters from parts of the house; the climax of the drama was hailed with gleeful delight from the gallery, where, it must be assumed, Boston's maids were taking their Thursday night off. An Irish brogue on the stage, uttering remarks not unheard of before in the theatre, was, to many in the audience, a matter for laughing, and laugh they...