Word: boast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sputtering-and-raging farcicality In this instance, as the plutocratic Mr. Hoggenheimer, he is bent upon forcing his son to marry a title but finally consents to true love with a shop girl. The best part of the show is the dancing chorus. Few stages can boast such dashing sweeps of color and movement. John Boyle created them...
...Shantung, China, invited as a matriculant to the University of Pennsylvania a young gentleman whose genealogy has no peer for well-authenticated length or world-wide distinction, Duke K'ung, aged 6. The Duke is 72-times-great-grandson of Confucius.* Where is the university that can boast, as Pennsylvania may be able ten years from now, of having the honor to enlighten a scion of a founder of a 24-century-old philosophy? What bursar has collected fees from the seed of Plato, Aristotle, Buddha or Mohammed? Sheltered in his ducal palace, sustained by a state pension antedating...
...Bury Fenners a team who did much to develop hockey, have as their boast that they have played for over one hundred years without having their record besmirched by a defeat. However, they were at times sorely pressed. One opposing goal-guard, an ingenious follow, lay down across the goal, blocking it effectually from one post into the other. The Bury Fenners had to extend themselves to win that game. But, as that illustrious captain of the Fenners, William Leeland said, "They was never beat by any town, and could do it with ease...
Arizona. On New Year's Day, Governor George W. P. Hunt, bald and portly, onetime cowpuncher, who might well be called the father of his state, was inaugurated for the sixth time. No living Governor in the U. S. can boast of such a feat. Only one other man has ever been Governor of Arizona...
Sirs: Your conceited puffing of TIME on its own letter page nauseates me. Because one* Robert A. Gardner has sent you $6 to send TIME for a year to the Prime Minister of Great Britain, is that any reason why you should print his letter [TIME, Dec. 20] to boast about...