Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play should count heavily against top teams like Providence College in the opener tomorrow night, and Eastern powers like Boston College, Boston University, and perhaps Yale. Except for the Elis, each of these teams will boast excellent goal-tending this season and it will be up to Bailey to match them...
...these reflect what Author McCarthy regards as the persistent Venetian style and temperament-dry, succinct, tough-minded. In the 18th century, the last of the doges, handing the ducal cap to an attendant, remarked matter-of-factly, "I won't be needing this any more." Venice can boast no profound thinkers, no religious martyrs, no native-born legendary lovers. Of the world, worldly, it pursued wealth and reared up pleasure domes to become what Byron called "the revel of the Earth, the masque of Italy." But the Venetian eye was as "true as a jeweler's lens...
...year-old Democrat Harrison Williams Jr. the seat he has held since 1953. Even more startling were the results in traditionally Democratic Hudson County, whose two House seats the Democrats had considered money in the bank. In the 14th District, bumptious Democrat T. (for Thomas) James Tumulty, whose boast it was that he carried more weight (330 Ibs.) than any man in Congress, ran well behind 49-year-old Auditor Vincent J. null In the 13th District, 45-year-old Major Alfred Sieminski, a Princeton-educated laundry operator who was elected to the House in 1950 while serving in Korea...
Cold Wet Sprays. Lowney's only sorrow was that in the five years since the colony was founded, it had produced no published book to follow Jones's Eternity. Last week Lowney could boast of a second, with the publication of Never the Same Again by Gerald Tesch...
...Renaissance scene as tireless and talented jacks-of-all-styles. Singly or together, they could turn out madonnas with Raphael's angelic sweetness, turbulent figures that writhed in Michelangelesque contortions, landscapes as peaceful as Giorgione's, plus a wealth of portraits, murals, ceiling decorations, caricatures. Their proud boast was that by borrowing from the best of the Renaissance masters they avoided becoming the followers of any one, instead were the equals...