Word: gloats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made hay by killing and confiscating right & left. By the time Cejonius was removed from his post and a new Governor came out from Rome with enough troops to stamp out the rebellion, "Nero's" government was collapsing from its own rottenness. Crafty Varro did not wait to gloat over Cejonius' downfall or to see what became of his puppet. He took refuge with the potent King of Parthia, where his suavity and brains were appreciated, and where even Rome's long arm could not reach him. But "Nero" Terence was taken and crucified, between his right...
When Californians suffer a fruit-killing frost, as last week, Floridians quietly gloat. When Floridians suffer a tree-destroying hurricane, as a year ago last autumn, Californians gloat. But until this winter growers of California navel oranges and growers of Florida Valencia oranges have discreetly avoided talking down the other fellows' fruit in northern cities where the chief customers of both live. The California Fruit Growers Exchange broke this discreet merchandising convention this winter by advertising flatly in newspapers and magazines, on streetcar cards and billboards: "Sunkist navel oranges are 22% richer in vitamin C [anti-scurvy, anti-colds...
...Seattle 500 University of Washington students clamorously piled wreaths fashioned from green editions of Publisher William Randolph Hearst's PostIntelligencer on the tomb of a future Unknown Soldier, heard a student impersonating J. Pierpont Morgan gloat: "We made money out of the last war. We'll make money out of the next...
Monday-morning quarterbacks, eager to gloat over successful predictions, equally anxious to justify errors in judgment, last week suppressed their crowings. Cause for their silence was a startling list of Saturday upsets...
...Miserables (Twentieth Century). When he arrived in Manhattan to gloat over public response to his two latest works (see p. 53), Producer Darryl Zanuck last week told the Press: "The most notable trend in picture-making has been that resulting from the public's cry for cleaner pictures. Efforts of the producers to meet this demand have made possible . . . Copperfield, Miserables, Bengal Lancer, Richelieu. ..." Fortunately for himself and Les Miserables, Producer Zanuck was entirely wrong. Les Miserables starts in the slums, proceeds to a Toulon prison galley and reaches its climax in a Paris sewer. It is the result...