Word: brag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every dollar the Federal Government has received since March 1933, it has spent two dollars. This is an appalling situation. . . . We must put the spenders out. For remember, those who preach spending, practice spending and brag about spending cannot stop spending. This is the lesson of history. That is the record of this Administration. They are proud of their spending. They talk of it as though preserving the financial integrity of the United States were only a game. ... If the Administration wants a baseball analogy, if they want the score-it is easy to give. It is written clear across...
...from the Louvre in Paris and from half a dozen Italian collectors, Cleveland's paintings made a show more comprehensive and legible than Chicago's two great art exhibits at the Century of Progress (TIME, May 29, 1933; June 11, 1934). Director Milliken's most resounding brag last week was that 28 of his pictures had never before been exhibited in the U. S., including those by Titian, Raphael, Bellini, Lotto, Veronese, Tintoretto, Andrea del Sarto, Holbein, Rembrandt, Terburg and Henri-Julien Rousseau's famed Night of the Carnival, "one of the greatest sensations...
With the Negus heading for parts unknown like Man O' War on the home stretch, the Italians have all but completed their Ethiopian conquest. Only the final overthrow of Addis Ababa remains before Mussolini can stalk into the League of Nations chambers and brag of a complete victory. Though most experts have doubted the economic value of the prize, no one can deny that the rout of the Emperer has cut away the last prop from the tottering statecraft of Geneva...
...report of a Presidential Board of Review which had approved the Canal for WPA. ("No board of engineers ever exceeded in ability and in training and in experience this special board of review.") He dwelt on the hurricanes which wreck ships going around the Florida Keys. ("I do not brag about those hazards; they are too close to Florida. ... I mention this as a fact.") He concluded: "This project is the mightiest force now available in making the Gulf of Mexico the Mediterranean of the Western World...
Last week Professor Yerkes announced in Science that the State of Florida has granted a charter of incorporation to the "Anthropoid Experiment Station of Yale University" at Orange Park. Last week was also a good time, decided Professor Yerkes. a reclusive observer, to brag about his 16 "dated chimpanzees." He calls them that because their "ancestry, date of birth and, with few exceptions, developmental history, experience, use in experiments, are matters of reliable record...