Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...self-styled Don Quixote who trod on Quirino's toes by pushing his investigations of municipal graft embarrassingly close to the presidential palace, Lacson likes to boast that he "calls a spade a spade, and if necessary, a dirty, stinking, lousy shovel." Not surprisingly, it was his tongue (which a Manila hostess once suggested he should send to the laundry) that got him into trouble. Lacson was sued for libel-and gladly suspended by President Quirino-after he publicly denounced his deputy chief of police as "ignorant, an ignoramus and incompetent...
...logical extreme of this opinion would be the conviction that any deviation in either direction from the statistical average is unadmirable . . . We are . . . more inclined to boast how many Americans go to college than to ask how much the average college education amounts to; how many people read books rather than how good the books are ... Argue, as I myself have argued, that more can be learned about almost any subject from ten minutes with a printed page than from half an hour with even Qne of the better educational radio programs and you will be met with the reply...
Economist Harold Laski developed young Marxists at the London School of Economics, and the Imperial College of Science and Technology (Britain's closest rival to CalTech and M.I.T.) could boast such luminaries as Professor Thomas Huxley and Student H. G. Wells. Guy's Hospital and Medical School has also done well-with Alumnus John Keats and Teacher Richard Bright (discoverer of Bright's Disease...
...slapped on Birkbeck College (for evening classes), and nearby the steel girders for a new student union are already in place. "We have it in our power," says Principal Douglas W. Logan, "to create in London a center of humanistic studies such as no city in the world can boast...
Abraham Lincoln later on became the Great Emancipator He could boast no Alma Mater...