Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freud to Fission. The rest of the book is a wife's-eye view of Upton Sinclair's career, written in a mincing, exclamation-pointed style that sustains the author's fond boast of having been the first student ever to gain a grade of 100 in English at the Mississippi State College for Women. Though Mary Sinclair loyally supports her husband's politics, there is a recurring refrain that goes something like: "I told Uppie not to do it, but he wouldn't listen and so he was arrested again." Sinclair fought John...
...speedboats were standing by to haul light equipment across the river. The move went as smoothly as an enchainement in a Royal Ballet Swan Lake. By the time all 44 Linotypes (cost: up to $20,000 each) had been uprooted and replanted, the Sun-Times was able to boast that the titanic transfer had not delayed its press runs a single minute...
...freshman meet, another undefeated squad faces a talented Eli opponent. The Bullpups have lost only to the Fordham freshmen, and they boast three phenomenal runners in Tom Carroll, holder of the schoolboy 880 record, Ned Roache, and Bill Bachrach, who has beaten them both. Bachrach currently holds the Yale freshman cross country record...
Moving into this taut situation with the touch of a blustering gamesman, Khrushchev put himself in a position to boast that only his timely threats had saved Syria from the terrible Turks. For most Arabs know that the seedy Syrian army constitutes no match for Turkey's 500,000 formidable soldiers. To the aroused Arabs, it seemed all too likely that the Turks were eager to take on the job of policing the Middle East for the Western powers...
Perhaps the real trouble with the American musical theater, of which Rumple is a fair sample, is a glut of achievement. In Porgy and Bess it can boast at least one genuine masterpiece, and in the work of Richard Rogers and Cole Porter it generally displays a very high level of taste and integrity. Furthermore, any cultural phenomenon which shows so much tenacity as the musical theater must fill a real need or it could not exist for thirty or forty years without alteration. Musicals are not only the very distillation of glamor and sophistication, but also hold...