Word: bragging
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...years ago first novels, with rare exceptions like Gone With the Wind, sold about 2,000 copies. Publishers considered 5,000 copies all they could risk on a first novel, used to brag in their ads if any first novel topped that figure. Now first novels like Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend and John Hersey's A Bell For Adano have both sold nearly 35,000 copies. Most publishers, by tacit agreement, have stopped using sales figures in advertising because, with the Government stressing the paper shortage, big printings might be misunderstood...
...concise and lively is the Army's new medical monthly that Army doctors brag about it to their civilian colleagues. The magazine's full title is The Bulletin of the U.S. Army Medical Department. It replaces the ponderous, quarterly Army Medical Bulletin. Unlike the old Bulletin, it carries articles on veterinary medicine and dentistry...
...army noncoms who still wear chevrons in the vastly expanded U.S. Army of 1943 have something to brag about. One of them has set some kind of a record for promotion...
...Salmaggi also likes to brag that 24 of his singers have later landed at the Metropolitan. When plump Contralto Bruna Castagna made her U.S. debut with Salmaggi at Manhattan's Hippodrome a few years ago, first-string critics acclaimed her as the foremost Carmen of her generation and the Met snapped...
...only test is combat-whether it's a weapon or a general or a second lieutenant or a private. WTe Americans brag too much about ourselves before we know what we are talking about, and we get some awful let-downs." > A high-ranking officer recently returned from overseas: "Any attempt we made to get the blunt truth into our communiqués was blocked. Most of us believed the American people could take it, but the tendency in higher quarters was to shield the people from the hard, cruel facts. . . . Whether this was deliberate shielding of the people...