Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city. Its population, about 325,000, is not too large for its ample area; it is pleasantly near Lake Ontario; it typifies much of the sturdy Republicanism, the rural conservatism, which mark upstate New York. If it is a question of noted sons, Minnesota's tiny Rochester may boast her famed surgeons, the brothers Mayo, but New York's Rochester answers with Cameraman George Eastman and is content. Good music and much education contribute to its civic culture; civic cleanliness is upheld by the barbers and laundrymen, who set aside one week of each year to ply their...
Still we'll boast again...
...audiences be many. The aristocracy of America, whatever it may be, must be amused, and whether it acts in fancy dress theatricals at home and does not enjoy itself, or in England and does, makes no difference. When the favored few return to these United States, loudly will they boast of their glimpse of the King and secretly be thankful that they have a President whose limp hand they may shake...
...should break the tape in front of Keith, Dartmouth's best performer in this event. The mile and two mile should add heavily to the Crimson total, with J. L. Reid '29, Leslie Flaksman '29, and R. G. Luttman '29 carrying the brunt of the work. The Hanoverians boast no miler or two-miler who can keep pace with these Crimson distance...
...boast is not entirely unjustified by the acid sorrow of this play which examines the interval in a man's life between his failure in love and his suicide. Drinking with a shifty little crony, talking to a good-natured whore, working with meticulous figures in a bank-all the activities of living assume for him the shrill, bloodcurdling futility of the little drumming dance he plays, from time to time, on the high notes of a piano...