Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toss off Carmen (gleeful eyeful) Miranda too lightly. Garbed in a florist's nightmare, she struts about spouting Brazilian double-talk with the facility of a side-show barker. There is a certain electric element in her contortion with commentary, something that makes the whole experience at least refreshing...
ALPmen had been certain Farley would be defeated somehow by Roosevelt, the man who had made the party's continued existence possible. PM, the tabloid which often voices A.L.P. opinions, was so sure Roosevelt would win that it ran a gleeful headline: FARLEY: RINGMASTER WITHOUT A SHOW...
Every change at Yale produces gleeful excitement and the announcement that Yale has produced another "Yale Plan" to revolutionize collegiate training. Don't worry about it too much; more often than not, it is a rehash of something in established practice elsewhere improved by a lot of window-dressing. Most "Yale plans" are just Christmas wrappings around last year's shoes...
...enemy and plunge out of formation to attack. The serious Germans will still rasp their guttural "Achtung! Achtung!" as they spot the foe. But the gallant, hell-for-leather professional pilots of the American Volunteer Group suddenly glimpsing a Jap formation will no longer have reason to exchange their gleeful call: "Certified check...
...Madame Absalom, who kept the yarn shop, avidly scanned the local press of Clermont-Ferrand every day "in gleeful anticipation of the demise of her 'ex,' as she called him. . . ." He suffered from rheumatism and a facial tic which she could imitate to perfection...