Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, found almost no audience...
...Gleeful Lectures. In the end, it is his biographer who has all the fun. Stryker quotes endlessly from Erskine's speeches, revels in his courtroom technique, lectures the reader gleefully in little asides on the art of pleading. Sample: "[The lawyer] must do the jury's thinking for them, yet with such tact that they are led to the belief that it is they, and not the advocate, who have unraveled the tangled skein." Stryker, who once had to ask a prosecutor what he meant by the expression "taking it on the lam," will find many...
Coach Harlow didn't have too much to say about the game. He opined that the blocking was better, especially the down field variety, and was gleeful on the improved gang tackling that was responsible for giving the Jumbos a 12 yard deficit in the yards-gained-rushing department . . . He was immensely pleased with Bucky Harrison's work. Statisticians have figured it that Bucky kicked from placement a total of 16 times on Saturday--a round afternoon's work for anyone's toe. The day before he did all this he played a full game with the Jayvees...
...Accuse." John had gone his full length, knowing to a hair what it would be. As he paced his 30-ft.-long office he could look back on his campaign with gleeful satisfaction. Everything had worked out as he had planned...
...Country's Good? In the cloakrooms conservative Democrats talked darkly of expelling Hook from the House; Hookmen suggested the same for Rabble-Rouser Rankin. Gleeful Republicans called it "a Democratic fight" and dealt themselves out. The peacemakers' suggestion was an apology from both contestants. The next day Hook did apologize-for three minutes. Rankin did not. He made a statement "that you may know exactly how I feel. . . . I was not responsible for what occurred yesterday...