Word: gloats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relatively easy. A little concentration before April Hours and finals will bring the average student through safely and without too much trouble. The person who enjoys having his head stuffed with unique formulas which in some magic fashion tie themselves up with simplified and inverted and mangled sentences may gloat over the course. For the average person the April Moon will compete heavily with logic for interest. Application is apt to bring an A; indifference is apt (for the sake of circumlocution) to bring trouble...
...Citizen Roosevelt had no lust to gloat over the wintry country he was soon to rule. At his side sat little child-faced William Hartman Woodin, soon to be master of the greatest treasury in the world. At his side sat professorial Raymond Moley, raised from the classroom to the councils of the great, but they had few thoughts of pomp and circumstance. The ruthless pressure of events gave them time to consider but one hard fact: that in four days the bank deposits of twelve states had been seized by the frozen hand of Depression...
...Department is absolutely right in its refusal to release the gruesome Signal Corps official photographs of mutilations, putrified dead and other war horrors to amuse the morbidly curious. It seems unbelievable that the people whom these men died so horribly to defend would want to gloat over these pictures and ridicule these heroic dead, or that a publisher would exploit them...
...other than accurate reporting. As to current events, TIME competes only for the favor of those who are prepared to encounter any and all facts.-ED. Sirs I hereby order you to stop sending your publication to my home - 7 Webster Road, East Milton, Mass. . . . Any publisher who will gloat over the lan guage used in your issue of Feb. 1 (p. 4) is not deserving of the support of decent people, and I forbid your publication coming into my home. . . . TILTON S. BELL...
...debated indefinitely--the eligibility rules are in question--Harvard is an institution for liberal education--West Point is a specialized military academy, etc.--regardless of conclusion one must salute independence of thought and fearless publication of convictions. How easy and safe to have written merely a dignified gloat over the victory. It is what ninety per cent of us would have done had we been the editors on that Monday after the game, and our rah-rah effusion would have wasted the time of the few hundred local subscribers who read it. Instead, the CRIMSON publishes a real editorial...