Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Scandinavian eligibles might there be? Unfortunately the kings of Norway, Sweden, Denmark can boast between them not a single female offspring...
...Riffian fastnesses of Morocco against that master strategist Marshal Petain and the best of Spain's (TIME, June 7), after two years of junta-ridden generals. Though they surrendered at last to the French valorous resistance, both Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim and his brother may still boast that they go to the life exile at Reunion* Island vouchsafed to them by France (TIME, July 26), without ever surrendering to Spain...
...which he repeats in this book, have never been conclusively proved. There is, as there was twenty years ago, an odor of truth about them; the passage of time has failed to make that odor more savory. Page 106 of Harry Thaw's book records, for instance, a boast of Mr. White's about 378 unfortunate girls, a story that most people have never cared to think about...
...prime characteristics of Mr. Andrews' cosmopolitan score of associates, and as their historian, Mr. Andrews is as lively as he is conscientious. He finds room to mention strenuous game hunts, native customs and practical jokes quite as plentifully as epochal discoveries and scientific excitement. There is not one boast in the book, and there might pardonably be many...
With proper pride the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. was celebrating its 75th anniversary with a boast: "There are ten presidents of U. S. railroads who can look back at their training days with the Burlington." The advertisements might well have told off their names...