Word: boast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matthews, once more: "Now I can boast that I've been behind the scenes in Washington...
Four nights later an eastbound Denver & Salt Lake freight crawled through a heavy fog in deep Gore Canyon 90 miles west of Denver. It missed a signal, collided head on with a westbound Rio Grande passenger train, killed the fireman. Sadly, railroad officials amended their boast: "Our new system does not penetrate...
Unitarianism stages no soul-stirring ritual, and has little mass appeal-its present U.S. membership is only 62,500. But Unitarians, few in number, boast of the great influence of their adherents, which have included such learned and illustrious Americans as Jefferson, the presidential Adamses, Emerson, Thoreau, William Howard Taft, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Show Boat (music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; book adapted by Mr. Hammerstein from Edna Ferber's novel) is still one of the most satisfying of all musicals. Few shows can boast a more delightful score. Instead of seeming dated after 18 years, Show Boat is merely very nostalgic: it brings back the '203 through the ear and the '903 through...
That 1908 Wattersonianism was more of a boast than a lament. In his own rambunctious time, which lasted 50 years, Marse Henry's paper was branded as a tool of the Freedmen's Bureau, of the Gold Bugs, of the brewers and distillers. Never batting his one good eye, Watterson roared right back at his accusers...