Word: prided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frivolous dirge of tinkling glass" ; "creatures crept-pawed dazedly-sought kin-bodies"-what a picture! Desolation ; and then "ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses." And so on. I do not mind "famed" or "as everyone knows"; the footnotes are all right; I get a kick out of POINT WITH PRIDE and VIEW WITH ALARM also Quiz. Why are people so solemn ! Can't they get the whimsical bantering between the lines...
After a cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...
...serious thinkers' pride...
...defeat, until the end. Passion had made her a lowly bed; she had writhed on it for years. She still could laugh at some of life's absurdities. Some of its beauty was still warm to her-Heine's poems, her own lovely hands. But her steely pride was turned upon itself, 'her mortal enemy. Not even religion could resign her to the indignities of poverty. When she felt her time upon her, she stole off alone to a Pacific headland, to watch dawn break over...
...author seems to take an obscure pride in telling things that other people would have been careful to leave unsaid. He is almost proud of the small slips from grace that filled his boyhood; the tone of the whole thing reminds one of Jean Jacques' "Confessions," Jess startling, of course, but put together with the same intentional candor...