Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opry got started, young men with guitars have been lounging into town to seek their fortunes on the sprawling, leisurely 4½hour broadcast of mountain and prairie specialties. Among those who found fame: Opry Alumni Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley and Roy Acuff, all of whom now boast six-figure annual incomes. Citified publishers and record companies-realizing that in the wide-open spaces of the U.S. a good barnyard ballad can outsell a bistro blues every time-have been making tracks to the source...
Quacks & Cheats. Although Barnes boasted the finest private collection of modern art in the world, few can boast of having seen it. In 1921, Barnes extended his fight for modern art into a war against all art fanciers and cognoscenti. That year, he lent 25 paintings to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Conservative Philadelphians scorned his moderns as "quack practitioners" and "cheats."Quick-tempered Alfred Barnes took his paintings back from the academy, locked up his collection in a $500,000 limestone museum on his Main Line estate at Merion, Pa. At the same time...
Gold Star mothers cried along the route from Boston to Springfield. Dignitaries became tongue-tied with admiration. Children waved and will boast forever as people boasted at the turn of the century about seeing Teddy Roosevelt...
...jeep jockeys suffer under a peculiar social stigma almost as bad as Trotskyism: they drive captured U.S. jeeps. When the drivers of the Russian jeeps boast that theirs are the best, the other two carefully but dolefully keep their mouths shut...
...whorehouses. Cicero is also an industrial town, with tree-lined neighborhoods of workingmen's homes, and friendly corner taverns where jukeboxes play lively polkas and the talk at the bar is in many languages. Though its history is pockmarked with crime and violence, Cicero makes one proud boast: no Negroes live there...