Word: bragging
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...clearly as anyone else Leader Garner saw that Texas itself will object to five Texases. The bigness of Texas is the supreme boast of every Texan. To hack the State up into five Arkansases would, to most of its citizens, be dismembering an empire. No longer could Texas brag of the fact that it grew more cotton (five million bales), produced more oil, than any other State. In such a split-up, North Texas would lose the historic glory of The Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio cruelly
...might have seen them had he been released from jail a week earlier, for they were on hand (by special permission of the police) for gangland's latest, grandest funeral, that of John ("Dingbat") Oberta. Joe Saltis, retired beer chief, came down from his place at Saltisville, Wis.., to brag of the $100,000 he had invested there in a nine-hole golf course, a clubhouse "that sleeps 26 people." George ("Bugs") Moran, who lost seven of his north side hirelings in the St. Valentine's Massacre (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929) informed Chief Stege that...
...first part of his statement I have no quarrel though I think his estimate is too low as there are 100,000 homes in Minneapolis. The second part of his statement simply shows he was taken in hand by a green taxi driver. I don't want to brag but we in Minneapolis have speakeasies that compare with any in New York, Chicago or Washington. Why, we point to our speakeasies with pride, just like we point to our symphony orchestra, flour mills and lakes. One section in was ''done" particular by one located...
...Southerners work too little and brag too much. . . . We have become intoxicated with our own prosperity and progress. . . . The South is not yet an educationally advanced section of the U. S. ... In public libraries we are at the bottom of the list. The average per capita expenditure for public library service for the country is 33?. In the Southern States it ranges downward from 18? in Florida ... to 2? in Mississippi...
...even when I'm on my way to England. I suppose there is no class of men with so much concentrated snobbishness, lordy-dordy and hoity-toity as the officers on British liners. When it comes to deck games they are the poorest sports I know-and brag the loudest about their sportsmanship. MATHEW GEORGIN...