Word: brags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calls "Bogartin'." The way he tells it, "Bogartin' is when a guy walks around like he owns the world, or acts superior or pushes other people around. I keep telling myself, 'Don't get bigheaded. Be good to the writers. Talk to the kids. Sign autographs. Don't brag. Throw a ball into the stands once in a while.' " Blue is especially careful not to appear "hot-doggish" to his teammates. When a group of airline executives asked him to appear at their banquet, he said, "Invite the rest of the team and I 'll be happy to come...
Almost as much has changed as has stayed the same since freshman year. I used to brag about how little "qualified" I had been to get into Harvard. I suppose I thought it meant somehow that I was special in some more special way than the mass of brain-specialists here; and at the same time, that I possessed none of their obnoxious wizardry. I was not like these strangers who in the harsh Lamont light took on the look of glass giraffes. Yet somehow they fondled my fancy and drove me casually on through the rainy years and plunked...
DiCara amassed a number of activities there that made him undisputed Boston champion in the brag list competition. He built up a dependable constituency and attracted other support by appearing at all the football games as head water boy dressed in purple sneakers, socks, pants, sweater, and beret...
...attempt to brag about your "special gift to homogenize a diverse society" in your "American Notes" [Oct. 26] at the moment when your neighbor is burying a murdered leader is the height of cruelty and conceit. Undoubtedly there were Canadians who expressed feelings other than anguish when American leaders were murdered-but for those of us who consider you a friend, your words are senseless. You owe us a retraction...
Aimee Semple McPherson liked to brag that she arrived in Los Angeles with $10 and a tambourine. If she'd had another ten-spot, she would probably have wound up Pope. As it was, she merely became the most famous gospel shouter of her time (1890-1944), founding mother of the enormous Angelus Temple and its 750 satellite churches, pastor to a radio parish of millions. Biographer Lately Thomas, who recounted one episode of her story a decade ago, fails to see his subject in any depth, or place her in historic context. Even so, his portrait of Sister...