Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cattle ranch all right but to say he is a prison warden at Salmon, Idaho, is rather amusing because it is a little town far into the mountains and the only penal institution of which it might boast is a little two-by-four jail. Salmon is a county seat...
...Original meaning: a triangular skysail, of small utility and perhaps mythical existence, hoisted by U. S. skippers to make good their boast of the world's tallest chips...
...task of separating the studious sheap from the frivolous goals is no small one. No one cares to admit, except possibly to his intimates, that his presence in college is but a conventional period of growth: such, a condition might very well be-true but few will boast of it Whether or not Dr. Park is over-emphasizing a contemporary disease, it is difficult to say. Certainly, in spite of their flippancy, his remarks cut deep, emanating as they do from a man vitally connected with modern education. As for his suggested panacea--if it were applicable it would probably...
...wild specimen of the slums. Henry Travers is her ragged parent with Shavian grievances against middle-class morality. Together with Beryl Mercer as a simple housekeeper who understands women better than the celebrated bachelor scientists, they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed by Scientist Higgins into a perfect specimen of Dutchess Britannica-triumph for Mr. Higgins' theory of phonetics. As the outside of a beautiful Duchess, the love-starved waif finds herself in a cruel predicament. She is more woman than...
...returned since they were clawed, kicked and dragged out by the hair and beard upon their last appearance (TIME, Jan. 25). Is there not some faction of such insignificance that its opposition is tolerated for decorative effect? There is. Giovanni Giolitti, five times Premier, and his twelve "independents" who boast that their votes are cast according to the merits of every question, are tolerated by the 384 Fascists who virtually make up the Chamber. Last week, as the bill presented was of vital import Communist Deputy Costantino Lazzari tried to fight his way into the Chamber armed with an umbrella...