Word: gloating
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...There goes that job in London-unless . . . With fiendish glee, Cagney plants a Wall Street Journal in the groom's motorcycle, gets the poor patsy clapped in a Communist clink. But Cagney stops milking his gloat when he finds himself snapped in his own trap. The boss's daughter turns out to be pregnant, and the boss himself announces that he will arrive in Berlin within 24 hours. Problem: in that one little old puckered-up day that he has left, can Cagney 1) spring the groom from his East German cell, and 2) convert him into...
...also consider it the height of irresponsibility, when our President makes a decision which backfires, to gloat over the country's misfortune. I have been glad to note that members of my party have not resorted to the disgraceful tactics used by some members of the other party after the U-2 incident last year, proclaiming to the world that our prestige had fallen to a new low. The test in each instance is whether criticism is going to help or hurt America. We certainly do not help America by running her down in the eyes of the world...
...elementary schools. Using Schreiber as consultant, the Ford Foundation recently gave $1,000,000 to start similar programs in Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. Stirred by Nessfeness, other cities are well launched, notably Washington, where a project at Macfarland Junior High School makes one official gloat that "we may be actually discovering a new dimension in education." Last week, answering queries from Hawaii to Germany, Dan Schreiber said: "We want to recognize the diamond in the rough and start polishing...
...Spark in this novel of arthritis and ague. None of her major characters will see 70 again, but since no sin has yet proved deadly, the reasoning of the ancients seems to run. there is reason to hope that wrongdoing may even be healthful. So they tyrannize each other, gloat over signs of decrepitude in contemporaries, stir the ashes and the urns of old loves with gossip. One septuagenarian lady runs a profitable blackmailing business, and an old eccentric whose blood is still faintly warm manages, at 87, to be more venereous than venerable; he pays cash for the titillating...
...Three Bine Suits, gave her version of their love affair. Sounding exactly like one of his own victims, Tom wrote her a note complaining that the book would "get pawed over and whispered about by wretched, verminous little people who want to poke around, pick out identities and gloat over . . . scandalous morsels...