Word: boast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When her eldest son Jimmy began running for governor of California, it became virtually mandatory that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt travel west and say a good word for the boy: the omission of such a rite would have given the Republicans a chance to boast that even his own mother wouldn't stump for him. But to Mrs. Roosevelt, who must reconcile the duties of motherhood with those of politics, the journey presented complications...
About the time that Lucy Sprague Mitchell came to live in Manhattan in 1913, the superintendent of New York City's public schools could boast, "I like to pause at 11 o'clock in the morning and reflect that all over New York thousands of pupils are reading the same page of the same book." School desks were screwed firmly to the floor, and pupils were expected to sit quietly at them. Teachers were supposed to know their subjects well, and little else besides...
...continued, ceaseless, devilish, provoking, delicious, glorious jam!" Thus ecstatically did young (22) Editor Walt Whitman of Manhattan's daily Aurora (circ. 5,000) sing the praises of New York in the spring of 1842. It was a notable newspaper era. Besides Whitman's Aurora, New York City boasted 15 other daily, six Saturday and five Sunday newspapers, all serving a population of 400,000.* Moses Y. Beach's New York Sun, James Gordon Bennett's Herald and Horace Greeley's Tribune were all bigger than the Aurora, but none could boast a livelier or more...
...must face the problem in a spirit of steadfastness and humility, remembering the admonition of the ancient King of Israel: 'Let no man that putteth on his armor boast as he that taketh it off' ... The way ahead is long...
...Here is an artist who, hailing from the most amiably rowdy and self-confident community the world has ever known, has elected to express the timidity that can never be wholly driven out of the boast-fullest heart. To a people whose ideal of manhood is husky, full-blooded and self-reliant, he has chosen to suggest that, under the ... crashing self-assertion, man is still only a child, frightened and whimpering in the dark...