Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberal scope of every aspect in that group of drawings. Four "large" meeting rooms are 20 by 65 feet. Ten "small" meeting rooms are 15 by 15. Provision is made for two broadcasting studios. Thirty offices would occupy space 10 by 20 each. Even the 11 rest rooms would boast dimensions...
What is significant about the report is that in this era, when civil liberties seem gradually to be evaporating, such a strong stand should be taken by such a highly placed committee. If written into law, the committee's proposal would certainly live up to President Truman's boast that it represents "an American charter of human freedom in our time." The "if," however, is a big one. Several states, notably New York with its Ives-Quinn Fair Employment Practices Act, have already taken steps along the lines the committee indicates. And the Republican Party stands pledged to bring anti...
Calling the right-wing Motion Picture Alliance "a comparatively vicious organization," Marre says that there is no danger from communism. Having directed a G.I. repretory theater in Berlin, he can boast of considerable stage and screen experience...
Unitarians crave a creed like a hole in the head. It is their boast that no member of their Association (they do not call it a church) could ever be tried for heresy. But Unitarians sometimes find that their cautiously passionate belief in free thinking does not accent the unity in Unitarianism...
...tweeds or else a funereal black cape and high satin stock. At night he preferred Victorian dinner jackets, lace cuffs, and ruffles. Thus attired, he spent half a century stalking likely subjects through London's foggy streets and second-best bar parlors. All his models, he liked to boast, were amateurs, "taken from life...