Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shereefian Umbrella at Rabat or at his other capitals. But he undoubtedly does resent any interference with the internal affairs of the Riff country and, provided that is assured to him with adequate boundaries as a guarantee, he may well become as good a Shereef as the Empire can boast...
...academic career with the proud distinction of defeating the Sophomores in the football match on the traditional "Bloody Monday" night The class won in two games out of three, the only instance of such an achievement so long as the semi-barbaric institution was continued. It was the boast of the class also that it gave more trouble to the faculty than any class which had been graduated since the days of the Great Rebellion...
...They needed a songbird in Heaven, so God took Caruso away" -so runs the catch line of a onetime popular song-a ditty which was scratched from every phonograph, mewed through the sinus cavities of every cabaret tenor who could boast a nose, caroled by housewives at their tubs and business men at their shaving. Before the echoes of the blatant dirge had been quite relegated to that mortuary of all songs - the monkey-organ - certain tenors were beginning to thud their chests in the press. To compare many with Caruso is, of course, absurd. But there are, in Manhattan...
...live them. Real beauty on the stage cannot exist without deep, silent appreciation in the audience, which reaches across the foot-lights to the players, helping them on. A rustling, noisy audience, whispering, coming in late, going out early, is a purely American creation and hardly one to boast of. In Europe the drama meets with greater refinement and intelligence. It is no wonder our best actors are imported...
...Lampoon code, artificial though it is, tiresome though its products may be, is admirable. It has a standard. And, that alone is praise among "college comics," for where is the college humor magazine which can boast one of those? "No 'He and She' jokes," says Lampy. Immediately the magazine steps to the head of the class. When prohibition jokes, mother-in-law jokes, and the like are added, Lampy distances the field...