Word: boast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Casey, representative of the American Federation of Labor, much impressed, said, pandering: "We in America boast of our great republic and our great democracy, but we must come to England, Scotland and Ireland to observe pure democracy and to sit down to quench our thirst with anything we like...
...mingling of the two. -Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner A liner of almost 20,000 tons, the largest ever to nose through Norwegian fjords and visit the northmost Norwegian isle of Spitsbergen, returned last week to Manhattan, bearing some hundreds of tourists all able to boast that they had read newspapers at midnight by the light of what Norwegians call the Midnat Sol. To newsgatherers Captain Wilhelm Muller of this cruise ship, the Hamburg-American liner Reliance, confided that there had been a great difference in the reaction of the U. S. and German cruise passengers to the Midnight...
...address his audiences, a mannerism which delights some proletarian* hearers, but causes many sturdy citizens quietly to withdraw; 4) the primitive range and calibre of Sir Harry's voice, which, while it is the very touchstone of his magic, also bears testimony at every note to his oft repeated boast: "I've never done anything for my voice but smoke and drink when I felt so inclined...
...score burned. To those who were pleased with it, I would say: 'There, go and do likewise.' " Such was the sublime abnegation of Richard Wagner, who, at the age of 60, was pleased to stand on his head in the presence of a visitor and boast "that is more than...
When Law and Order boast with pride...