Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vanities?The second edition will boast mainly about Joe Cook and Margaret Hawkesworth...
...THREAD OF ENGLISH ROAD-Charles S. Brooks-Harcourt ($3.00). Author Brooks went cycling across the southern English hills, but he announces on Page One of his account of it that: "We must expect no high excitement. I cannot 'boast even of so much as a footpad; nor shall we meet a single Duke whom we may later hand about the hearth among our homespun neighbors and say thus he spoke and thus we answered." But in spite of all this, or very likely because of it, he has transcribed an altogether delightful account of this picturesque ramble. He insists...
...have always been sought by office-seekers as a very necessary factor in their campaigns. The famous motto of the Democratic party in the recent Senatorial race in Massachusetts, "Dis-Lodge", may be recalled as a perfect example of this. But no other President has ever been able to boast that his birthday, was on July 4, and this will undoubtedly turn out a valuable asset when the votes are counted next November...
...Department scorn of the airplane, developed in America; of the submarine, invented here and used everywhere else; of the machine-gun and and any number of instruments, contrived by American ingenuity and abandoned to other nations for development and exploitation. It seems incredible that a country whose proudest boast is its superior business sense should permit its government to indulge in such-eminently unbusinesslike caprices...
Hitherto no American bank has been able to boast of resources totalling a billion dollars. Yet it is undoubtedly only a matter of time until some of our larger banking institutions break into the "billion dollar" class. The likeliest candidate at present is America's largest bank, the National City Bank of New York; that it is already within striking distance of the billion dollar figure is shown by its statement at the end of the first quarter of 1924, when its resources had reached...