Word: prided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have always been a cat fancier, and pride myself on knowing a good deal about them, and contrary to general opinion cats are very delicate and especially susceptible to colds and pneumonia, and should never even in the warmest weather be bathed in the open air, or exposed to any draft while the least bit wet. So many of them surfer severe aftereffects, as well as torture from extreme fright, which cats who are not accustomed to water always have of being put in it. Give 15 minutes excitement at a County Fair, and set a bad example of animal...
Good prisonmen keep a peeled eye on conditions and methods in other prisons than their own. Some of the institutions which the conferring penologists at Albany and the penal officials at Washington view with alarm, note with pride...
...they clapped which one they liked best. A variation of that idea has been arranged for Ted Lewis in the form of some nonsense about an old Hungarian violinist who played symphonies for royal families and his son who played jazz. Elements of mother love, fatherly pride, wealth that can buy finery but not happiness, fail to depress Jazz King Lewis. He excitedly and excitingly blows his clarinet and saxophone, juggles his high hat, croons odd songs in a hoarse voice. Best song: "I'm the Medicine Man for the Blues...
...they go out to their country club to play golf or polo, the well-to-do of Buffalo pass a militant group of stone buildings to which they point with constantly increasing pride as the University of Buffalo. Not many members of the country club are alumni of the University. But in the past decade the University had increasingly entered the country club's consciousness, through the good offices of that potent Cornell alumnus-trustee, liberty-loan driver, reparations expert, friend of Owen D. Young, "double" of Governor Roosevelt, lawyer (Kenefick, Cooke, Mitchell & Bass) and banker (Marine Trust)-Walter...
...Society points with pride to: the William H. Vanderbilt "Good Hands Cup" donated at New York horseshows to the horseman, horsewoman, who is most considerate of the mount's mouth; newly perfected distemper vaccine; an electric stunning device for food-animal slaughter; revival of the magazine Our Animal Friends (previously called the Kindness News...