Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fletcher Riley, a candidate for governor, was stopped by California police on the way to visit his estranged wife and relieved of a revolver and a rifle. Charley Huff, running for secretary of state, limited his plea for votes to the boast that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." In Sequoyah County, E. W. Floyd, a brother of the late Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, won the Democratic nomination for county sheriff. And Homer Cox, just declared sane after his mother asked an examination by a sanity board, lost his race for secretary of state. Sighed...
...tune, Hurrah for Our National Game (1896), sums up the feeling of America's early baseball fans: The Gamester may boast of the pleasures of play, The Billiardist brag of his cue, The Horse jocky gabble of next racing...
Every ambitious zoo longs to exhibit some interesting animal that no other zoo can boast. Last week the National Zoological Park at Washington earned this distinction; it became the proud owner of three impish-looking, mustachioed young sea otters-Hortense, Aggie and Peter...
...California, at the Compton Relays, Kansan Wes Santee announced that he was about to run a 4:00.3 mile. Santee's feat was almost as big as his boast. Racing in a cold wind, he was clocked in 4:00.6, an American record, second only to English Roger Bannister's historic...
While it bears many of the earmarks of an extended prop school, this college of just under 1,000 students can boast of several departments that match or extend beyond the best of the big universities...