Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a no-nonsense approach. Architect Bunshaft, who keeps one eye cocked on Corbusier's concern with related forms, the other on Mies van der Rohe's precise, modular construction, had already put up some of the best in glass, aluminum and steel that the U.S. can boast today...
Cops gulped as they read: "I saw the seamy underside of the police department . . . I got to know policemen who drank on duty, loafed on duty . . . I saw how saloonkeepers get parking tickets fixed . . . I heard my fellow policemen boast openly of freeloading on liquor and food -'living on the badge' they called it . . . Time and again I heard the smart-alec patrolman brag about his 'take,' repeating his motto: 'Never take a cigar that ain't wrapped in green...
Billy Prince, a handsome, hustling man who hates offices, was born William Wood, the son of a fairly prosperous New York insurance executive. At ten, he became the protege of a distant cousin, the late Frederick Henry Prince, a brilliant, eccentric New England speculator who liked to boast that he had built four railroads and had financial control at one time or another over 46 more. "Cousin Fred's" own young son Norman, of France's famed Lafayette Escadrille of U.S. flyers in World War I, was killed in action in 1916, and his 'older son showed...
...French government trumpeted a victory, and cited it as evidence for Minister Resident Robert Lacoste's chronic boast that the Algiers revolt is in "its last quarter of an hour." But a more realistic French colonel in Algiers said ruefully. "Every time we get one rebel, we know he is immediately replaced by another...
Women and art do not seem to mix well. The top ranks of American painters include only two women-Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe-and few countries can boast even that much female talent. Nevertheless, with the increasing leisure of American womanhood and the enticement of painting as a hobby, women have an invitation to become popular artists. Grandma Moses has proved it possible, on a grand scale. And now Cape Cod's Alice Stallknecht, a spry, sturdy widow of 77, is seconding the nomination...