Word: brags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high average miseries of low average people give this goodness something to bite into. The life of the Stevens family along the railroad embankment showed little to brag of. Mr. Stevens was a poorly paid clerk; Dick and Mary worked out; Mrs. Stevens kept house; young Ernie kept it lively. They could afford few pleasures; they were fed up with tedious work; they took little interest in the out-side world, but-they took their holiday...
...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...