Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that we may keep this earth for free men." It is the thought of some other or possible Sergeant Chambers in every spectator's mind that accentuates the poignancy of Maxwell Anderson's drama. Its moment in history transfigures it, restoring to subjects like young love, maternal pride, the sense of home, the heroism of war some of the luster that oceans of hokum have washed away. All the same Playwright Anderson has frequently brought to his story something as warm with life as a heart beat, yet kept it masculine with the kind of tough Army humor...
...days House Republicans sat back, pleased. But point seven ("There can be no vested interests in this war") soon felled their pride. Coming up was the inflationary Brown amendment (see p. 19) to raise farm price ceilings under pressure of farmers' vested interests. For the inflationary amendment the Republicans plumped 99 to 53, helped a minority of Democrats appease the farm lobby. Sensing that the future of the Republican Party if not of Congress itself was at stake, one member of Ditter's brain trust said bluntly: "By God, we are caught on that one. There is just...
...knowledge that the R.A.F. was hammering at Germany's pride, as well as at her industry, was a reminder to many Britons that their own island, at any time, might suffer a revengeful onslaught from the Luftwaffe. Last week's dispatches from Moscow and London reported three new German planes in action...
...making friends and turning out sharp copy. When war came, the slim, good-looking youngster (27) said his job was unimportant, asked for foreign service. Last April he got it. Word of his mishap moved Navy Secretary Knox to say: "I think we all feel a great sense of pride at the long chance men are taking to get the news...
...wittiest connoisseur of art and letters. They were a team. Nast built a 30-acre printing plant at Greenwich, Conn. In the boom he also went into the stock-market.* And just when he was ready to retire, he went broke. His last decade showed his qualities of honest pride and courage. Working seven days a week, he restored his personal and corporate fortunes, piloted Vogue through the '305 without making a single concession in its standards of smartness or excellence...