Word: bragging
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...brag on us a little bit?" cried Texas' Hatton Sumners. What he bragged about was that U. S. lynchings dropped from 231 in 1892 to 130 in 1901, to 54 in 1916, to 20 in 1935, to six in 1938, last year to three* (one in Mississippi, two in Florida, none for rape). These descending figures seemed to point the moral that if Congress lets right-thinking Southern whites alone, they can work their dark problem down to zero...
...tremendous importance of controlling yourself at your age and wait until you are old enough to choose a good girl for a wife? You have no right to play with girls who know no better than you. You can be a butterfly sucking every attractive flower. You can even brag to your friends about the conquests you have made. You are not a hero. You have taken advantage of the weakness of womanhood to satisfy your baser nature. There is nothing heroic about that...
...present Broadway season has been nothing much to brag about. It has produced some very good entertainment, no good serious drama, much bad playwrighting. Last week the casualties were heavy. First, English Playwright J. B. Priestley went to the block for When We Are Married, a stale joke protracted into a three-act play. Next, Irish Playwright Paul Vincent Carroll, after distinguishing himself with Shadow and Substance and The White Steed, mounted the scaffold for Kindred, a turgid work neither poetic nor rational. Finally, U. S. Playwright Gustav Eckstein was garroted for Christmas Eve, a confused tale of family life...
...rule a Soviet Russia. Lenin's efforts before the revolution were to build up a professional revolutionary machine experienced in organizing workers and able to dodge the police. Almost all the big revolutionists of necessity lived abroad; Stalin and Molotov were the only two who were able to brag in later years that they stuck it out for the most part inside. At World War I's start Stalin was in a prison camp just below the Arctic Circle. He got out when a general amnesty was proclaimed at the Tsar's abdication...
...Snobs who brag of their ancestry betray their ignorance of genetics. Each person receives 24 chromosomes from each parent, an average of twelve chromosomes from his grandparents, six from his greatgrandparents, only one or two from his great-great-great-grandparents. "If you claimed descent from Miles Standish, the odds may be 20 to one that you are no more related to him than is any one else in town...