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Word: boastfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could do that Moses Couldn't was look good in a brown derby." Though the efficiency experts of the G. O. P. shake wise and warning heads and whisper of depression and of rum-as though the two went hand in hand-Lampy still clings to his ageless boast that "Jests are better than a brain!" Doubtless Lampy is qualified to say, and certainly the jester is to be praised for publishing his convictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ABBOTT FINDS LAMPOON PARODY WELL DIRECTED | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

Chains. Unjust are the sneers which currently link Louisiana's bankers with Louisiana's onetime lotteries. Unkind are pictures of bewhiskered, bejuleped col- onels. As every Louisianan knows, New Orleans can boast many an active, enterprising apostle of sound finance. One such journeyed to Philadelphia last week to address fellow-bankers on bedrock principles of their profession. No dodderer, no lotterer, Rudolf S. Hecht is the able president of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. of New Orleans. German-born Banker Hecht has become so substantial a support of Louisiana industry that the Times-Picayune gratefully hailed him as New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bull, Bear, Lion, Lamb | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Dinner" is at 6-more bran toast; dictating or studying stops at 9; and so to bed. Mr. Chief Justice is not one of those septuagenarians who boast how little sleep they need. Nor does he "run upstairs." He does, however, operate his own elevator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Generally speaking, the new Nationalist State continued to make good its boast of ruling all China, except Manchuria, last week. The Manchurian War Lord, Chang Hsueh-liang continued unable to join the Nationalists because of his unwilling, enforced alliance with Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Hero | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...cameras use brighter lights, need glass partitions or windows to prevent recording the clicking of the machines, boast much more involved paraphernalia than ordinary cinemachines. Greater conveniences exist in Hollywood, yet many a cinemactor has blanched before his first "talkie" ordeal. Difficult therefore was the role of the polyglot actors in Paris. And difficult also the job of the cameramen stumbling over and struggling with old rose-covered chairs and large horseshoe table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace in Paris | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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