Word: prided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether I am a Southerner, my reply must be?one kind but not all kinds. The solidarity of the South is no longer a source of pride, but of humiliation to many of its most devoted...
...President Lowell, have considered such and such a policy mistaken. Such occasions will probably occur again. But opposition at scattered points is inevitable where strength, conviction and vision are qualities of a man in a responsible and outstanding position. There has been, so far as we know, nothing but pride in the general outlines of his building, in the strength and lasting quality of achievements like the tutorial and concentration system and his handling of the admission requirements. Harvard has been indeed fortunate to have been guided in succession by two such Presidents as Eliot and Lowell...
Republican Senators, ill particular, had many vexing items to dis cuss-not the least of which was the status of Arthur R. Gould, the pride of Aroostook County, Maine. Mr. Gould was the Republican nominee for Senator to succeed the late Senator Bert M. Fernald, and was expected to win the special election last week without a murmur. But, one week before election, noxious charges against him began to pop up. His Democratic opponent, Fulton J. Redman, produced records of a Canadian investigation of 1918 in which Mr. Gould admitted under oath paying $100,000 to one-time Premier...
...Colonial Office pointed with pride to the decrease in human deaths due to wild animals from 3,605 in 1923, to 2,587 in 1924 and to only 1,974 last year. Curiously enough the only species of animal to take a greater toll of human life this year than last was the elephant. The number of tigers killed was 1,609, leopards 4,660, bears 2,485, wolves...
...difficult to see just exactly why Mr. Marks selected Dartmouth as a hotbed of mauve decadents. Of other colleges such an accusation might have its foundation but Dartmouth men pride themselves on their north woods virility. The mere geographical fact that the college is in the cast does not deprive it of western ruggedness and an open spaces diamond-in-the-rough charm. The profession of literature must have dulled Mr. Marks discernment. Or perhaps fame has rendered him insensible to the gradations and intricacies of college life. Surely "The Plastic Age" was never like this...