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Word: boastfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patriot and one hundred per cent national publicity agent than casual glance could suggest. For South Bend is alter all but one city in one part of the country. What hope then is there for all the other cities in all the other parts? Though one can boast of local morals and another of local anesthetics. South Bend alone can boast of twins joined together in infancy, ladies and gentlemen, step right up and see with your own eyes. So an era of provincial inferiority complexes awaits those cities who see no future chance to pave their prosperity with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SORRY ON SIAM | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

Harvard has long boasted the oldest and worst gymnasium in the country. It rarely boasts about having the filthiest one. That's a pity, since it could so boast without the slightest danger of ever being challenged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Epic Epidermic | 4/27/1926 | See Source »

...mechanicals remembered only that they had cast out Herr Ebert from their union in 1919 for being too conservative, for having become known as "the Kaiser's Socialist." To them it seemed "only right, considering developments since 1919" that Friedrich Ebert should be able to boast celestially that he is a saddlemaker in good standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ebert Forgiven | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...than Tsar. But one thing he cannot do. He cannot explain himself. He cannot express things. He canot touch emotion with winged words. In conversation he is witty, but on the platform he is dull, heavy, too careful of his facts, not sufficiently boisterous. "Do things, but don't boast about them" is his motto. So neither he nor his rich backers (primarily Procter, Ivory Soap man) could sell him to the politicians. It was deep disappointment. Theodore was dead. Was Leonard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: In Manila | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...tart. Roosevelt once warned: "He can sting like an adder," but could have amended, from his knowledge of the man and of adders, that he was not wantonly poisonous. The tongue that flickers through these pages feels for its cheek oftener than not. And another thing: adders do not boast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Benvenuto Redivivus | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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