Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty much the same: it is still elegant extravaganza bursting with top-flight specialty entertainment. The film has a superstructure of Gershwin music (last score before the composer's death); it has as well the minty savor of screen spectacles in the Thirties which sticky current jobs somehow cannot boast...
...first London merchant to buy U.S. style full-page newspaper ads and to boast of such unique department-store services as wart removal, pipe cleaning, coal delivery, cricket-bat oiling, wig making, expert umbrella rolling...
...construction of modern schools at his impoverished birthplace. In Boston the Greek Orthodox Cathedral benefits from his generosity. Over a battered desk hangs perhaps his proudest possession, an autographed portrait of Eleutherios Venizelos, until his death in 1935 the towering Greek democrat of this country. Felix does not boast a grasp of political nuances but he holds a simple hatred for the Communists in Greece...
...Migliore. After this test, Togliatti rose rapidly in the international hierarchy. Between foreign assignments he lived and wrote in Moscow. Said one of his friends: "He is one of the few Western Communists who can truthfully boast of Stalin's personal trust and friendship...
...would be an un-Texan understatement to say that Texans boast. It was probably a Texan who was so tall that he had to climb a ladder to shave; it was undoubtedly his brother who was so small that it took two men and a boy to see him. So when they heard that Hugh Roy Cullen gave away upwards of $100 million one night last week, Texans recognized a true son of the Lone Star State...