Word: prided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nahum Sokolov been a man of greater soul-breadth, he might have restored peace and been elected President. For he is a most distinguished man in whom his race takes pride. Born in Wishograd, Russian Poland, he was an intellectual prodigy at ten. He has been a journalistic prodigy ever since, is the most prolific Jewish writer of this generation. Histories, primers, geographies, magazine articles-there is nothing he has not written. But he was not the man to quench the fire in Jabotinsky's eyes. He was not the man to wean from Weizmann the financial support...
...work through a lonely park when he was set upon by three weasel-faced fellows-men who, in soggy swaddling-clothes, were mewing for their mothers when McCoy was trading cuffs with the hardest hitter who ever put on a glove-thin rogues whom, in the days of his pride, he could have broken with a slap of his hand. They knocked him down with a piece of iron pipe, strove to take from his finger a $3,000 diamond ring. Unable to pull the thin gold circle from his bulking knuckle, they took whispered counsel, produced a pair...
After a cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...
...dispute was one William Mehlhorn of Chicago. It is true that he stood well down the list with a 74, but he has a champion's nerves. He is at his best under pressure. He began to play with the desperate efficiency of a man defending his pride. In the last round he went out in the increditable score of 32, came in with a 34 to tie the course record, But the best his gallant effort could get him was second place. His title had been taken by Macdonald Smith, who thereby demonstrated to a skeptical world...
After a cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...