Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenneth Grahame's vendetta against the Olympians of Victorian society, and their view that children should only be lectured or else sentimentalized, was the great battle of his life. His fictional children indulge in gleeful fantasies in which Olympians are skinned alive, shot or made to walk the plank. The Olympians struck back; a reviewer called one Grahame short-story collection "a dishonour done to the sacred cause of childhood...
...think of words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.' " Despite its irritating quality, the formless formula works well enough in evoking the often simultaneous boyhood moods of scorn, fear, sentimentality, barefootedness and gleeful obscenity. Writes Kerouac at wild random: "A young and silly dove is yakking in the blue, circling the brown and slushy river with yaks of pipsqueak joy," and "the mystery which I now see hugens, huger, into something beyond my Grook...
...popped irrepressible M.P. Emrys Hughes to ask what amount Rees-Davies had charged the girl for his professional services? "Never mind about that," snapped the barrister. The gleeful Hughes then accused Lawyer Rees-Davies of also living on the girl's earnings, and the House rocked with laughter...
...Auntie Mdme, mameishly chartered her own Viscount, took off from London with a slew (38) of friends, including high-spirited Actors Trevor Howard and Charles Laughton. Highlights of the tour: a determined check on rive droite fleshpots, a calorie-laden spread at the Tour d'Argent, a gleeful reunion with another Mame, Greer...
...Police place them high on their winter social calendar. The Cambridge Fire Department also is usually summoned to provide entertainment for this event. Hook and ladder teams descend noisily on the Fly Club in response to false alarms turned in from the box on the Fly's wall by gleeful members of rival clubs...