Word: gloating
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...longer may the sage of Sewickley ruh his hands and gloat over the Bulldog as he loses his grip. We have demonstrated our ability to apply mathematical formulae to the science of the diamond, while exhorting our team-mates with quotations from the scriptures and the classics to play better ball. Harvard's bitter chalico may perhaps be sweetened by her realization that she must adhere more rigidly to that musty proverb that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." --Yale News...
Thus reads one verse of a famed German gloat-hymn, but the fame of the Emden will not live in gloat-verse alone. So decreed President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany, last week...
...Popular U. S. gloat...
...water level. By April 21, the 2,280th anniversary of Rome's legendary founding, they must, according to their instructions, uncover the vessel. Last week only a few feet of water remained above it. It is probable that the pumpers will make their schedule and the curious may gloat at the water-logged site of Caligula's orgies...
...scratched up further blood and thunder about San Francisco's underworld, 22 years ago. It is a candid melodrama, of vice rampant and virtue triumphant; yet its most bitter climaxes are meant to be accepted and enjoyed in a somewhat mocking spirit. The audience will gloat, not shiver, when a character says: "I'll get you for this, Logan, if it takes me twenty years"; or, "Wong, you'll pay for this...