Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mechanical bloodlessness about some of the systems which would be more likely to infuriate than elevate a man of first-class talents. Many of the systems put a premium on conformity, and the best executives are frequently nonconformists. Furthermore, the companies with such huge training programs that they boast "when we retire a chairman we hire an office boy" are apt to be too inbred; they miss the new blood and new ideas that the occasional hiring of executives from outside would bring. And while a whole cult of "executive-grooming" counselors has sprung up', one of the leading...
...reason for big sales, Stanley Marcus likes to boast, is that Neiman's is the only store carrying designs by every famous international designer. "At the store," says he, "a Dallas woman can examine under one roof what a New York City woman could see only by visiting 27 stores." Even in New York City, homesick Texas expatriates often call up the store long-distance to do their shopping at Neiman's. But its biggest accolade so far came from Texas-born Ike Eisenhower's wife, Mamie. She ordered her inaugural gown from Neiman...
...high seas. This ship's mascot, a German shepherd called "Mr. X" (because his real name is the ship's secret code name), has the run of the ship. The contented crew has already pitched in $6,000 for the March of Dimes. Ramsey's proudest boast, as his ship weighed anchor for California: during the entire nine-month s cruise, he never had a man in the brig; instead, the brig was used for the storage of dishes and galley supplies...
...some 3,000 Baptist Sunday-school teachers converged on Glorieta for seminars and steak fries, lectures and horseback riding, hiking and hymn-sings. It was their first glimpse of the camp, which, when it is finished in 1956 at an estimated cost of $7,000,000, will boast gardens, an artificial lake, hotels, dining halls, cottages and cabins to house half a million Baptists each summer...
...pass the word whenever they find a state crew setting up scales along a highway to catch overloaders. (Even so, Georgia last month found that 5% of the trucks checked were guilty of overloading.) In Illinois, where truckers may file their own reports on ton-miles traveled, some boast openly of getting away with false reports to the state. In 1951 in Missouri, Forrest Smith, then governor, publicly stated that he understood money had changed hands on the floor of the legislature to defeat a bill to increase truck license fees...