Word: brags
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something to Brag About preaches that dull husbands may catch a high polish at any moment. This particular husband comes out of his coma long enough to hold up a neighbor for $1,500. The same day, his wife decided she should leave him for a slimmer, sager...
Provocative of silly, harmful brag...
...implied was, as a generality, correct; nor did it err in what it suggested as to the thinness, mildness, composure of Trader Cutten. Such a man he is. He lives on a dirt farm in La Grange, Ill. He always answers questions, though sometimes cryptically. He does not brag. Once he was a clerk in a hardware store. Now he is reported to have 10,000,000 bushels of wheat and rye at Great Lake ports...
...honor: "There are many anniversaries which mark our journey through life. At 21 years of age we are welcomed to manhood and citizenship; at 60 and 70 we do not like to have the dates well-known because we wish to be considered younger; at 80 we begin to brag about our age; and when we enter upon the last lap or the century at 90, then the world rejoices and helps us along...
...indifference of Harvard is as strong toward the academic work as toward other elements of college life. Few men attain the honors of Groups I or II, or even Ed; most are content with enough C's to quality; many there are who brag aloud of their consistent; achievements in bluffing, or of sleeping or card-playing through class hours. The chance for contact between student and instructor is so slight that any communication between them is of a cold, telegraphic variety. When a student does take the trouble to try to know his instructor better, he is generally regarded...