Word: preens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, scions of families known the world over, had an opportunity to preen their feathers at Newport Art Association's Gushing Memorial Gallery. There, an eminently back-scratching collection of family portraits, paintings, historic prints and photographs was gathered to celebrate the town's 300th birthday. The gallery's walls bore a stupendous weight of 19th-Century socialites, intellectuals, artists; 18th-Century pirates, privateers, naval heroes; 16th-Century divines. And among them hung paintings of the Colonial churches, including Trinity's Christopher Wrenish spire by one of Newport's best known resident artists, Helena...
...independent columnist whose opinions the publisher disavowed, it was as much of a shock to Herald Tribune readers as to Lippmann's friends. Before long, however, the Herald Tribune'?, bosom ceased to quiver from the shock of taking in this potential viper and started to preen itself on owning the prize exhibit in the journalistic zoo. Lippmann's popularity as a daily elucidator of world-events soon grew nationwide, and his column was last week being syndicated in 160 U. S. and Canadian newspapers of assorted political persuasion...
...Good Neighborhood agent, grey and graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis, went to the reconvened Sugar sessions of the ill-fated World Economic Conference of 1933 in London last month, he announced his intentions with such a neat sous-entendu as would make a French Foreign Officer preen (TIME, April 19). Said he: "This is the sweetest [mission] I have ever had. . . . If we could only reach one agreement ... it would be important in this crucial period of world history to Democracy . . . showing that 22 nations can sit down and reach some agreement...
Connecticut's hilly preen Litchficld County has seemed to two young Yalemen an ideal place to found preparatory schools. In 1893 Horace Dutton Taft (Yale 1883). tall, spare brother of the 27th President, settled himself and 30 pupils in an old resort hotel at Watertown as the Taft School for boys. Thirty-seven years later brown-haired Paul Fessenden Cruikshank (Yale 1920) went ten miles west to found Romford School in Washington, Conn. Big Taft and small Romford have each enjoyed a notable success. This week 330 Taft boys from all over the U. S. returned from their vacations...
...National Education Association approached Manager James E. Darst of St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium, suggested that he sell only soft drinks at the bar during the annual school superintendents' convention. Instead Manager Darst added two extra bartenders. Last week the convention ended and Manager Darst could preen himself on his acumen. The 8,000 superintendents had consumed more liquor at his bar than did the American Legion last autumn...