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Word: boast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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RAIN-People are now beginning to boast about the number of times they have seen the courtesan destroy the charletan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 10, 1924 | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...food at Memorial Hall is probably fairly good, but certainly no better that, if as good as, that of other Cambridge restaurants. The sole advantage which Memorial can boast is a lower rate, and that is not enough. For there is scarcely any undergraduate at the University who is forced to financial circumstances to forego all other advantages for the sake of the lower rate. The one suggestion left to make is that the way to the undergraduate's heart lies rather through his palate than through his pocket-book: It would seem wise to try the experiment of raising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PALATES AND PURSES | 3/8/1924 | See Source »

George Bellows, native of Columbus, O., began his studies at the Chicago Art Institute, continued them in New York under Robert Henri. Bellows is a successful and prominent member of the Woodstock colony (TIME, Aug. 6). It is his boast that he has never left the U. S., that his work is entirely free from foreign influence. It is this very provincialism which makes him one of the most Important American artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: An American | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

Squash again leaps into the headlines, and the University is able to boast another champion. The CRIMSON is only expressing the sentiments of the University in congratulating Captain Dixon on his victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER MICROCOSM | 2/16/1924 | See Source »

RAIN?People are now beginning to boast about the number of times they have seen the courtesan destroy the charletan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 11, 1924 | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

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