Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Stieglitz: "It was in those Photo-Secession rooms that the ice was broken for modern art in America." This is no idle boast. Between 1908-16, 291 introduced for the first time to the U.S. the works of Rodin (drawings), Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne, Rousseau, Georgia O'Keeffe (whom Stieglitz married...
...doubts that the good warrior has the right to deceive his enemies. But what is inadmissible in the war we are fighting is that we should deceive ourselves-that we should make a virtue of necessity and boast of our guile, and turn the moral world upside down by insisting that wrong is right and bad is good...
...Japs. They learned the difficulties of dive-bombing destroyers, which are as hard to catch in the open sea as a cockroach on a kitchen floor. They learned the most advantageous level to begin dives into ack-ack. They learned the best way to deal with Zeros. Some squadrons boast of the number of lives they have given for their country. But Kirn's men are proud of how much they did with so little loss. The lessons learned by Kirn's men will be of service to the country because they came back alive...
Today General McNair sees vast qualitative as well as quantitative improvements in the Army of 1942 over the Army of 1941. But when others boast about planes and plane production, McNair observes: "We haven't got enough for proper air-ground training." The spirit of the soldiers-the persisting tendency to seek an easy war-troubles him. In a nationwide broadcast last month to the troops in his home command, he said: "There is no doubt that Americans can and will fight; when aroused they are brave in battle. You are going to get killing mad eventually...
...good box office as the fiery body. She has made an invalid lady on a couch the essence of glamor. She has turned Shakespeare and Shaw into rousing hits. And when, next week, she brings her revival of Chekhov's The Three Sisters to Broadway, it will boast a dream production by anybody's reckoning - the most glittering cast the theater has seen, commercially, in this generation...