Word: prided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other picture scarcely improves matters. It is called "My Marriage," and it deals with a proud society dame's being humbled by an innocent young lady and her chivalrous admirer. The last words before the final embrace are "Don't let an old woman's pride and stupidity keep you apart." They also struck us as the last straw
...certainly do not and have not shivered because I disagree with such views and I don't believe that other "navy hardshells" have either. About the little dig in the last sentence of your article which reads, "A gourmet who would be a gourmand but for pride in his slim figure, he likes golf, fine wines, caviar." What is the idea? ... To ridicule our next Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet? Whatever the idea, I think what you have said in the quotation above, even if it were true, and it is not true, is in extremely bad taste...
...debt in cash the Empire might. prefer to dis charge its obligation by ceding the British West Indies to the U. S. in part payment. In Barbados immediately afterward Edward VIII, then Prince of Wales, made a vigorous speech which loyal Britons last week recalled with pride in their new King. "The King's subjects are not for sale to other governments!" he cried. "Their destiny as free men is in their own hands. Your future is for yourselves to shape...
PERISH IN THEIR PRIDE-Henry de Montherlant-Knopf...
...Henry de Montherlant's portrait of two eccentrics. Tycoons would find it had little connection with real life as they know it. But readers with no axe to grind and no grindstone to rest their noses on will be entertained, amused and touched by Perish in Their Pride. Though a study in human eccentricity (and French eccentricity at that), it was concentric with a more perfectly rounded humanity. Author Montherlant did not make caricatures of his creatures, grotesques in their own right...