Word: brags
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...Radford School for Girls in El Paso, Tex., waggled her finger and told St. Louis Rotarians what was wrong with U.S. parents and education. According to Dr. Templin, too many parents "pass the buck. Fathers alibi too much . . . take the path of least resistance, are too indulgent . . . lack integrity, brag at home about business deals, even though those deals have a tint of shadiness to them . . . It shows up in the children, who view ethical wrong as getting caught, ethical goodness as getting by." Parents let religious education slide, "teach about Caesar in the home . . . but not enough about Paul...
...cops and all the FBI men seemed to be getting nowhere, though empty Federal Reserve moneybags were turning up all over the eastern U.S. They had hope that the ancient enemies of the criminal would work to help them -the temptation to drink and brag, to spend conspicuously, to quarrel over shares, to tell their molls too much. But it might take a while before the boys got tired of just riffling their fingers through a million dollars in cool cash, or lighting cigarettes with $1,000 bills...
...Majcinek had just one salable skill. In the dealer's slot at Schwiefka's gambling joint, he dealt cards with the impersonal fairness and nerveless accuracy of a machine. "Frankie Machine," the Division Street punks called him, or just Dealer. "That's me," he'd brag, "the kid with the golden arm . . . When I go after a wise guy I don't care...
Nobody knows exactly why Moscow jams Voice of America broadcasts, yet permits the Russians to listen freely to the voice of Amerika. But Editor Sanders has a hunch. Says she: "We never preach, brag, quarrel or draw invidious comparison^ Ours is not a frontal attack; it is a loYig-range campaign." The campaign's major objective: to cast on Russian minds at least the shadow of a doubt about Communism's superiority. Recently Pravda and Izvestia assailed Amerika. Says Editor Sanders happily: "That means we must be getting read...
...thing, said Comstock, "learn something about the business you apply to for a job. Know what job to ask for. Don't tell an employer you'll 'do anything' . . . Don't brag and don't bluff. Any successful businessman can spot bragging or bluffing easily. He's been doing it himself all his life...