Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swindled his partner out of $15,000 to oblige her with a trip around the world. When detectives beat him to the boat, Harry makes a getaway, wires Martha the whereabouts of all his cash and tells her to meet him in Philadelphia. In her gleeful reply Martha thanks him for the money, bids good-by and nuts to him in a telegram which makes Harry Bogen's most inspired malice sound like baby talk...
Loss to C.I.O. of I.L.G.W.U., second largest of the original C.I.O. unions, will mean loss of one of the most progressive, most solvent, most ably led industrial unions in the country. Whether the garment workers remain independent or return to a gleeful A. F. of L. remains to be worked...
Such was H. L. Mencken's first gleeful antic during the first week of the loftiest newspaper job in his career, the editorship of the staid Evening Sun. Thus was Mencken, his pale blue eyes agoggle, his single-breasted suit stretched across his bountiful belly, cocking a snook at his eager literary undertakers. Four years ago his plentiful enemies rushed him to his grave when he ended a nine-year editorship of the American Mercury. Said an American Spectator obituary: "It was most fitting that his last pieces were contributed to an ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual...
...critical spectators at her latest performance, these old acts still seemed Angna Enters' best. Though the audience was gleeful the judicious grieved at the cheaper symbolism of a new piece called A Modern-Totalitarian Hero, or "The glory of living dangerously," in which Miss Enters appeared in a heavily bemedaled uniform and gas mask, went into mock ecstasies over a rose, then tore its petals off in rage at being pricked by a thorn...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney caused gleeful nodding of heads when three of her beautiful greys won the Amory L. Haskell Trophy (for teams of three hunters) and her team of two bays and a brown placed second...