Word: prided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a crew of 50 the Nahlin has superluxe accommodation for only a small yachting party which Palace reports slated thus: King Edward, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Lord and Lady Brownlow and Mrs. Evelyn Fitzgerald. Citizens of the Balkans learned with pride that the Royal Party will board the Nahlin in Yugoslavian waters, cruise to Greece where conditions are ripe for another revolution, finally cruise around the Italian boot on a "Good Will Trip" symbolic of post-Sanctions peace between Imperial Britain and newly Imperial Italy...
...ranch where he is a cowhand, he discovers a pretty stowaway (Frances Farmer) who turns out to be his employer's niece. By the time this relationship has had its anticipated effect on their romance-amusement at his effrontery on the niece's part, outraged pride on Lara-bee's when he learns she is an heiress-the romance has served its anticipated function in excusing half a dozen songs tossed off in characteristic Crosby fashion...
George Gordon Lord Byron's "lameness was due to congenital clubfoot of the talipes equino-varus type, affecting the right foot only." Ill at ease with men the poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected...
What had started as an enterprise of civic pride went on the same way. Members of the club agreed to take no profits from the track, put $2,500,000 more into improvements. Arlington Park became to Chicago's five race tracks what Belmont Park is to New York City's four. In 1931, its best season, $18,000,000 was wagered in 30 days. What improvements to make after purses have been raised may be a problem. The track already has the largest grandstand in the U. S., an "eye in the sky" to photograph close finishes...
...exhibits the difficulties, economic and temperamental, encountered by a devoted young couple who try to keep house on $35 a week. The bride (Barbara Stanwyck), in order to indulge her taste for $50 negligees, takes a job as a model. The husband (Gene Raymond) suffers from hurt pride. An alcoholic stranger (Robert Young) takes a hand in the proceedings at this point, almost breaks up the menage before the young pair's best friends (Ned Sparks and Helen Broderick) patch...