Word: pride
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like many another girl anxious to make good in Hollywood, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Anne Baxter has given up things to get ahead. She sacrificed her chestnut hair to become a striking martini blonde; she swallowed her pride and smoked cigars at the suggestion of her publicity man; she betrayed a family secret by feeding a columnist the story that her grandfather, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, wore only a bright red sash on his wedding night. Last week, after six years of marriage, she filed for a divorce from Actor John Hodiak. Grounds: incompatibility...
Author Clune doesn't exactly extol these bandits, but there is a glow of something like patriotic pride in his prose when he sums up: "Within the limits of their equipment and opportunity . . . there is one claim which can be made for the Australian bushrangers, without fear of contradiction on the facts. Australia's Wild West period was as wild as. if not wilder than, the corresponding frontier phase in the United States of America...
...friends it would be in August. After that my two teen-age daughters went back to school in September and told all their friends. By October, I felt that everybody was snickering at me, so I just pouted. I didn't call O'Neil; there was my pride to consider...
...guests found the Victoria Plaza equipped with every convenience the most demanding tourist could expect: airconditioning, the continent's fastest elevators (710 ft. a minute), bilingual telephonists and barbers, a Helena Rubinstein beauty parlor, bedsitting rooms furnished with thick English rugs and draperies, and running ice water. Pride & joy of Executive Chef "Lugot of the Waldorf" is the pushbutton kitchen, visible to bife-savoring patrons in all its stainless-steel sublimity through a long window that runs the entire width of the hotel's grill room. Pronouncing Uruguayan beef the equal of Argentina's finest, Chef Lugot...
...Canada for the Prince of Wales, to Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, Oilman Edward L. Doheny. That kind of money he called "dead men's prices," meaning the price of an old master. Nonetheless, Charles Russell knew what he could do and had a master's pride in his talent. Standing before a display of modern art, he once said: "I can't savvy the stuff. It may be art, but it's over my head. I may paint a bum hoss, but people who know what a hoss looks like will know I tried...