Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...model for St. Mark's and partly for Groton) to accommodate wealthy and socially scrupulous families. All have anxious and extensive waiting lists. Among Bostonians at least, Groton may be said to have achieved the loftiest prestige of this kind. Its graduates, "Grotties," are unmistakable. They boast: "A Groton man wires to Dr. Peabody as soon as his son is born. Others generally think a letter is quick enough...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. is not modest. Boast he does, in his editorial columns, in his very news columns. Last week he made his way into other news columns. He was in Baltimore being treated for an infected jaw, which he told the newspapermen was a result of gassing in the War. The jaw did not prevent him from announcing...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. is a wealthy and energetic 27-year-old who has reported news for Publisher Hearst's newspapers, built up a news service of his own, built up three successful tabloid dailies in California and Florida. He has a considerable patrimony but may justly boast that his success is due not solely to that but to his name and his not inconsiderable journalistic talent...
Occident people have often boasted of the superior quality of their intellectual awakening as manifested in their political life. Their boast is not without grounds for it does take a very open state of mind to force the body to act according to the dictates of the conscience and an Occidental political career presupposes a certain element of domination by conscience. It must not be forgotten, however, that the European awakening has been confined to that phase of action which concerns the preservation of European liberties...
...please the most cautious isolationists. Under these reservations the United States needs only bring such matters as it pleases to the attention of the Court; is quite at liberty to disregard its decisions, and may withdraw at any time it sees fit. In short, the Court proponents may now boast with even greater pride that American participation in that body would be quite harmless...