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Word: gloatings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Junk-Emden | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Popular U. S. gloat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Queen into Pantheon | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Salvaging Caligula | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Qualities of Moissi | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...pack of slanders deliberately and covertly set afoot by one's political opponents in an organized way? Is it a mixture of fact, exaggeration and gossip on unprintable subjects which one's political opponents know is being passed around and over which they secretly gloat? Is it a parcel of prejudice circulated by the ignorant and the fanatical, which one's opponents would be powerless to arrest however fairminded they might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Whispers | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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