Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchestra played selections from Haydn's "Clock Symphony", a Brabma Hungarian Dance, and a medley from Kern's "Show Boast...
What is the solution? None! without a radical change in the student attitude. Such a change as I am about to suggest would indeed be miraculous owing to congenital cussedness, original sin, or whatever name you want to give it. When the student ceases to boast of the B or C he got and begins to boast of the new stock of knowledge he has acquired and the new ideas such knowledge has engendered, then and only then will your crusade be won. Short of this there are only palliative. Of course, the Corporation might hire persons to organize...
...prosper, barring violence to their persons, as long as students lack pride in their own work and would just as soon "let George do it" for a few dollars. One slacker in the student body tends to ruin the morale of the whole, since such a one can boast to his working comrades, "I got a B out of old so-and-so without cracking a book...
Although the Crusaders are potent medicine and boast and a brilliant relay team, while the Huskies are a better-than-average outfit, today the cards seem stacked for a well-rounded Crimson squad that ended up the winter season in a blaze of glory when it upset Cornell to win the Quad meet...
Beneath the placid security of America's little-red-school-houses, a disease is festering which threatens to undermine public education. Americans boast of their youth, their open minds, their opportunities to learn and think for themselves. But the facts behind these boasts ring false. The sickness has spread until there is a shortage of schools, a lack of funds to maintain them, until their teachers are underpaid and often have never gone beyond high school themselves. The highest standards of a few rich cities and states cannot compensate for the slough of rural America...