Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hammering biscuit tins, old oil cans and brake drums, made the place hotter with ear-splitting overtures. Then judges were picked from the audience, and the calypsonians started in. Besides Attila there were old master-singers with such names as the Roaring Lion, Growling Tiger, Mighty Dictator, Small Island Pride and the Blind Sensation...
Said one young man: "I have to confess that in the past I have felt undue pride in my membership in the Men's Glee Club, and tended to look down on members of the Gospel Choir." Sniffled a determined brunette: "I want to say this publicly so that those who hear me will know I mean business. I know it's mostly fellows who say they have impure thoughts, but girls have them too. And I want to apologize if I've ever tempted any of the fellows I've had contact with. I know...
...could such needs be met? A start could be made, said the report, at the employment office: applicants should be "welcomed, not merely tolerated." Once hired, an employee should be educated, beyond the narrow limits of his own job, to the broad aspects of company policy, thus giving him "pride in his job and pride in his company...
...Next went pride in himself. Pride was a "mainstay" of the old sergeants' personalities, "but once a break in efficiency occurred, their self-confidence weakened progressively...
...urging of a nurse who is determined that the Scot shall die among friends, they manage to thaw him out into the friendliest man in the place. When Todd learns that he has been befriended out of pity for his imminent death, he lapses into his old bitter pride, and it takes all of the script's doing to bring him around in time for a lighthearted but misty-eyed ending...