Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times movie editor proceeded to "prove" that movies are better than ever, if only by "the magnificence of the proportions of movie actresses. While Theda Bara could boast "but a scant 31 inch bust measurement, even a starlet today must...
...physical facilities are concerned, Eliot has its good and bad sides. The good side looks out over the river or on one of the finest of the House courtyards. The bad sides boast not only a full view of the subway yards, but also an excellent lookout on the alleyway where food is brought into the central kitchen and garbage is noisily removed in the early hours of the morning...
...Thomas Kirk Cureton is a man of 49 who says he feels 35. It is no idle boast. He can prove it with physical-fitness tests in which he ranks consistently next to Track Stars Gil Dodds, 32, and Craig Dixon...
...Moscow, 3) he had had a heart attack. But Mao's propagandists spoke up for him. They claimed huge economic gains in the year of Axis solidarity: coal extraction up 30%, steel production above China's prewar 1936 level. They added an unconsciously ironical boast: "The poor Chinese masses today are able to enjoy a similar kind of cultural life as that of the Soviet Union...
...bound to influence people. Before long, he had built up a tidy trade servicing hotels, restaurants and bars with uniforms, towels, linens, etc. Moreover, Willie proved so good at horse-betting and other enterprises that by the time the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee called him last December he could boast of owning a $400,000 house in Deal, N.J., a $45,000 house in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., a Cadillac, a Lincoln, and $30,000 just kept around the house for spending money (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week Willie proved that he had not lost his golden touch. To Manhattan...