Word: gloatingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh apparently had won, could gloat over the predicament of the papers he had long craved to chastise. But his triumph did not live long. Newsmen have devices with which he had not reckoned...
...this episode, the profession thought it saw part of an explanation for Curtis-Martin's expensive acquisition in March of the Philadelphia Inquirer, a purchase that left only the Record between Curtis-Martin and monopoly of the morning field. Gloat by Publisher Julius David Stern of the Record...
Since Painter Brush is already 74 years old, it is unlikely that he will collect any money from Mrs. Brooks-Aten. No foxy sycophant tricking unwary ladies with oiled flatteries for which they can ill afford to pay, Artist Brush had better things to do last week than to gloat upon the precedent his suit had established or to bewail the obdurateness of Mrs. Brooks-Aten. It was the second week of his first comprehensive public exhibition at the Grand Central Art Galleries, Manhattan...
...clay must have stuck to the murderer's clothes, but he got away! He got away!" the detective'pretends to gloat, then screams as he throws back the lid of the coffin, "AND HERE IS MARIA HAHN!"-or Ida Reuter, or whoever he had been talking about. As the coffin flew open a powerful jack-in-the-box mechanism would cause the blood-stained body of the girl-victim to sit bolt upright-or such was the effect of a life-size wax dummy doing duty for the corpse...