Word: boast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Garden ef Weeds. A collection of hireling hoydens from the chorus rent but their love to a promiscuous promoter of Wall Street. On his estate at Asbury Park, N.J., he gives jamborees which scandalize the neighborhood. It is this millionaire's proud boast that he can make any Woman subservient to his lecherous leanings by muffling her good impulses in the mortal coil of evil environment...
...What two women in the United States can each boast of having been the daughter, the wife, the mother of a Senator? ? Mrs. Eugene Hale, daughter of Zachariah Chandler of Michigan, wife of Eugene and mother of Frederick Hale of Maine, all Senators; Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, daughter of Henry G. Davis, wife of Stephen B. and mother of Davis Elkins, all Senators from West Virginia...
...Democratic column. Various members* of the Executive National Negro Democratic Committee issued a call for a National Democratic Negro Convention in Baltimore, May 27. The announcement: "The Democratic Party is sure of victory this Fall because honesty will be the big issue, and the Republican Party certainly cannot boast of that "The Republican Party has never fulfilled its promises to the Negroes, who have been their faithful allies since 1872 . . . "The so-called grand old party is not the party of Grant, Sumner, Chandler and men of that class, but is today composed largely of the representatives of special privilege...
...president who thought "I am the State." It now has one who believes "quieta non movere." It has a Titus Oates all its own. Some think it has been "conquering Japan on the oil-fields of California." Soon there will fly from the top of the Capital the proud boast of the country's state-men: "America expects every man to do (and say) his dirtiest...
...result of the match, the Crimson fencing team has not only obtained eight consecutive victories, but can also boast of a better record than any other team which has represented the University this year. The Crimson foilsmen have thus far beaten Bowdoin, New York University, Columbus, Dartmouth, Norwich, West Point, J. Sanford Saltus Club, and M. I. T. Next Saturday they meet Yale at Hemenway in the last and most important match of the season...