Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rejon ?that is, he rides first as a picador, then dismounts and finishes his job as an espada. And there is Gaona, of Mexico,* who fights without a muleta, relying solely upon the suppleness of his hips to elude the bull's furious charge. It is Gaona's boast that the horns seldom miss him by so much as the breadth of a finger...
...college students of the day are morons. The word "dumbbell"² was also used. Over this estimate, Prof. Charles Gray Shaw, of New York University, mused skeptically: "As a matter of fact," said he, "the students have more avidity for knowledge than their teachers can boast. . . . If they do not learn, it is because they are not taught. The conversation of students is often of a low grade. So is that of their teachers." Prof. Shaw declared that the student of the day inclines to the unemotional attitude of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago perverts; that Phi Beta Kappa, hierarchy...
...student of journalism is always suspicious of a slogan of this type, .whether applied to magazines or newspapers,* for he knows that usually those publications that boast that they are prepared for people who think are actually edited for morons...
...English are by no means an uncompromising race, for their avowed policy and boast is to "muddle through somehow"; yet they have just turned their thumbs down on the party which walks in the middle of the road. They see that since Liberals have become more and more indistinguishable from Conservatives, the new amalgamation is no paradox, but only another form of elimination...
...time, however, when the moderate leaders of Japan, the nation which came off third in the Washington Naval agreement, are seeking by every means to allay Oriental distrust of America's naval ambitions, it is unfortunate that the chief executive should feel obliged to boast of a "naval rank, second to none". Japan's sensibilities, deeply outraged by the immigration insult, will store up the needless affront. Japanese pride, made anxious by the stabilization of naval ratios at 5-5-3, will not be allayed by this new demonstration, for it will not be perceived that...