Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fighting spirit shown against Dartmouth was evident again Saturday after Captain Cheek had entered the contest. Few teams can boast of a more inspiring leader than the Harvard captain. Cheek's forward passes to Sayles were prettily executed and pulled the game out of the fire; but neither the fighting spirit nor the Cheek-to-Sayles pass was able to bring victory over Dartmouth last week, and a great many other things are needed if the Crimson is to take Princeton's measure next Saturday...
...show a much greener hue. Two of the four Dartmouth victories have been scored in the past two years, and in the three games that have been played between the two Universities since the resumption of play after the ten year split that began in 1912, the Crimson can boast but one green scalp, that from the tomahawk of Owen in 1922. Both verdicts since then have gone to the invaders...
Some months ago, a tall, erect, blond, young man of severely military carriage and aristocratic mien, was invited to a garden party at one of the most sumptuous villas of which modern Rome can boast. There he was introduced to a slight, dark-eyed girl olive-skinned, graceful as a faun, warm with the lambent inner radiance of the Italian heart...
...Herald makes public boast of its 75-page bulk...
...this rate of progress and elevation New Haven will soon be able to boast the projected bronze bull dog (to be joined by a leash to "hanc statuam"), a new set of blue lions for the oval and perhaps a correspondence school of cinema photography. Columbia has one! We can even foresee the time when the only relics of yesteryear that Yale can boast will be Professor Beers and compulsory chapel. May the author of "The Ways of Yale", however, long outlive the less noble institution...