Word: prided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years, some 3,500,000 U. S. lads over twelve years of age have been Boy Scouts. There are now 856,000 active members and officials. Particularly, do Scouts point with pride to honorary officers. Calvin Coolidge is Honorary President, William Howard Taft, Colin H. Livingstone, Daniel C. Beard* and William G. McAdoo are Honorary Vice Presidents...
...RESOLVED by the House of Representatives, That the President of the United States be requested to appoint the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin an admiral in the Navy and to place him in command of the battleship West Virginia, the pride of the Navy, with orders to anchor at New York Harbor...
...Joseph Herman Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, consented to be interviewed. It was a rare event and one for which Journalist Betty Ross, able stylist, took proper pride of accomplishment. Editor David N. Mosessohn of the Jewish Tribune printed her "story" last week. His Eminence, as Journalist Betty Ross likes to term him, received her in his private residence at Hamilton Terrace in the northwest part of London. Few U. S. visitors have had the privilege of entering his cheery reception room, with its large windows, its creamy-tinted walls, etchings, photographs. Journalist Betty Ross made herself...
...that country by forbidding all religious instruction. The times of the Inquisition have come again, when Jewish teaching must be done secretly, in cellars and lofts-in forests, even. And always the constant danger of denunciation by spies, meaning imprisonment of both the teacher and the parents!" His pride: "I started the first Zionist Society at the College of the City of New York in 1889, seven years before Dr. Theodore Herzl...
...SOLDIERS, we are confident that all, from the chiefs of the army to the humblest soldiers, will give proof of that spirit of discipline which is the pride of the army, and that you will remain worthy of the confidence which your country has placed in you, devoting all your strength and souls to the fatherland and throne...