Word: gloat
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Nevertheless he has set a time-next November-for the transition. Last week the People's Political Council met in Chungking for its last session. Its members were allowed to worry a little over China's rising commodity prices, gloat a little over her rising military hopes. At its last sitting they listened to the Generalissimo make a radiantly confident speech...
Well might Chungking gloat. For the first time, a recognized Japanese spokesman had suggested peace to Chiang Kaishek. Japan's Army has always insisted that Chiang had to go before it would even talk about peace. The Navy, arguing that it would be folly to conclude a nominal peace affecting only the occupied areas, has favored going straight to the Generalissimo. Japan's new Premier, Mitsumasa Yonai, is Commander in Chief of the Navy. It looked last week as though some day the right men in Japan might get talking with the right men in China...
...TIME, Aug. 7 Paul V. McNutt, replying to Norman Thomas' charges against him, rather seems to gloat over the fact that organized labor raised no protest against his confirmation by the Senate to the post of Security Administrator...
...spring of 1936, as the Yale boat race approached, a panicky Harvard crew decided it could not win without inspiration: Since most members of the crew liked to gloat over Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates, which runs daily in the Boston Herald, they hit on the idea of asking him to send them a picture of one of his luscious, semi-nude female characters. Cartoonist Caniff obliged with a sketch of a girl named Burma. Harvard won by six lengths...
...showing Harvard to her for there is always plenty to gloat over and to point out pride fully in the Yard. A stranger isn't so quick to notice that some of those glorious trees are now drunkenly askew, propped up like so many old ladies. Strangers are inclined to see only the starched bosom of Widener. And she misses the ugly excavations while dreaming over the calculated simplicity of Memorial Church. Then Vag introduces her to his Yardling friends, Goo-Goo the pigeon and Grumpy the squirrel. They accept her, so she "belongs." Vag is pleased at their approval...