Word: prided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe if I were you I would think things over, swallow my pride, and apologize. At least I would point out, if I could, that some of the 50 million were French or German or something and that there are still some nice fellows and timid souls in the U. S. who don't indulge in Mae West...
...laurel wreath. Scholarly President Joslyn-who is 64, and often mistaken for a doctor because of his black goatee and spectacles, and who still goes to the office every day except Wednesday, when he stays home to read to his wife while she knits-enjoys a great deal of pride in all this. And his company has enjoyed 18 years of labor peace. The plan...
...Manhattan, for Manhattan has been "Notes and Comment," which leads off The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. Last week's column, best & saddest of them all, was devoted to Manhattan's most popular mythical character, the top-hatted dandy (portrayed, in the full pride of youth, by Artist Rea Irvin) who on the first cover of The New Yorker, and every year on its anniversary issue in mid-February stares through his monocle at a butterfly...
...felt through their feet. They learned that the only "impostor" (a person of sound hearing who poses as deaf to cadge charitable upkeep) to appear during the past three years, one Charles Burton of Altoona. Pa., had been punished by law, then killed by a motorcar. They pointed with pride to the deaf-mutes who make high mark in the world today-Sculptor Elmer A. Hannon, Poet Howard Leslie Terry, blind Pianist Helen May Martin, Dancers Charlotte & Charles Lamberton, Dentist A. H. Clancy of Cincinnati, Broker Samuel Frankenheim of Manhattan, Research Librarian Elizabeth McLeod of the New York Public Library...
...over both his Washington newspapers (the other is the evening Times). She said she wanted time to think it over, and meanwhile in April arranged to lease the Herald. Last fortnight she heard that Mr. Meyer had increased his bid. Now thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of losing her pride & joy, she called San Simeon again. "Well, Cissy," said Mr. Hearst, "you tell me what you want to do and I'll have my folks...