Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seaoned material is concerned, however, the engineers have a slight advantage with four veterans, while Harvard can boast of only one letter...
...Navy regards itself as an organization for national defense. "But," says the Navy, paraphrasing Karl von Clausewitz† "the best defense is a strong offense." The farther from U. S. shores an enemy could be met, the prouder and happier the Navy would be. The Navy does not boast that one U. S. sailor is a match for any two foreigners but it firmly believes that if the U. S. sailor is armed as well as any foreigner, no one will ever come to war with...
...life his motto: "Our work is only commencing." From 1903 onward Mr. Davison Dalziel had been a member of the board and an intimate of M. Nagelmackers. He, now Baron Dalziel, is thus Chairman of the Board of Wagons-Lits by a definite right of succession. His proudest boast is that the Armistice was signed in Wagons-Lits...
Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo of the nominally democratic Nationalist Govern-ment at Nanking, make a spacious gesture, last week: He backed his brother-in-law, Finance Minister T. V. Soong, in promulgating a one-sentence exaggerated boast and flat defy to Chang Tso-lin, thus: "As the Nationalist Govern-ment controls sixteen of the twenty-one provinces of China, producing nearly 70% of the customs revenue, and as the authorities in control at Peking no longer repre- sent the legal successor of the former recognized Government, the Nationalist Government clearly cannot recognize the right of any other authorities independently...
Daniel Webster Hoan, Socialist, famed among U. S. mayors, worked his way through the University of Wisconsin, was graduated in 1905, ran a restaurant in Chicago, studied law and Karl Marx at night. Now it is his just boast that few U. S. cities have higher credit than Milwaukee; that no city is so economical. For example, Daniel Webster Hoan reduced garbage collection costs to $2 per annum per family, compared to $20 elsewhere...