Word: boast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holmes would have the student incessantly pursue a definite field of concentration from the time he enters a junior high school until the day of his graduation. Some might be able to boast of a little precocity, but rare indeed is the lad who can, or who would be willing to, divine his concentrated study, his profession, or even his prospective college, on the morning that he enters a junior high school. And still more ephemeral is the high school teacher profound enough to advise the child what life-course he should follow...
...tune which the A. E. F. found British troops singing when they got to France. Roughly speaking, the song had a heroine?a "mademoiselle from Armentieres," to whom the song was dedicated. Habitual singers of informal songs are to be found, who "know all the verses." No boast could be more egregious, yet a certain uniformity obtains in all "complete versions" recorded by bawdy memories (for all versions were bawdy). In general, any "complete version" recites the beauty and whimsicality of the heroine, her generous disposition towards regiments and regiments of the military. No wedding is recorded, yet suddenly, almost...
Many students who seek work at the Bureau have never before attempted to sell their brains and their muscles, and there are some even who feel ashamed of the necessity of doing so. Men working their way through college are sensitive, however loudly they may boast of how they "made themselves" once "arrived" and writing for The American Magazine. Others, though they are not unaccustomed to work, are indeed, proud of working, are not willing to allow their private affairs--of which their budget is certainly one--to be placed even on the more or less confidential files...
...sole boast to uniqueness that this combat might have had is in the characters of the principals. One was touted--to the death--as a student prince; the other made an odd comeback to popularity by emphasizing those qualities which once made him an unpopular champion--brute force and a marvelous thickness of skin as regards what the public had to say concerning him. The gentlemen met before, in Philadelphia, and each would have been much happier were the other dear charmer away. Their second encounter proved more interesting, in its preliminary bombast, than the first; due to the burst...
...picnic lunch en route, re-served ringside seat at the fight, and "a stop for one hour at the Cleveland landing field in order that the passengers may have an opportunity to stretch their legs and see something of Cleveland's famous Air Port." Souvenirs. Brighter than a boast of being a "first air tourist" is the ticket Thos. Cook & Son have ordered for their first flight. It "will be printed on parchment paper and will be about the size and general appearance of college diplomas. The members of this pioneer tour can then frame their tickets and keep...