Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving in Princeton, N.J. one night last week, Leon Henderson's heart was warm with pride and sentiment. Thinking of the nice things old Barney Baruch had said about him that day, he joined his dinner hosts in a glowing mood. Before the evening was over, Leon's cup of sentiment was overflowing. For the dinner celebrated the 100th anniver sary of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. of Trenton. And Leon (born in Millville) is a Jersey...
...bespectacled Skip Alexander of North Carolina turned in 67). But it was better than that posted by Defending Champion Dick Chapman, 1939 Champion Marvin ("Bud") Ward, onetime British Amateur Champion Charley Yates (now a U.S. Army private) and onetime U.S. Open and Amateur Champion Johnny Goodman, the pride of Omaha, who was playing on his home course...
...Here is a devil who in the mere spasms of his pride and lust for domination can condemn two or three millions-perhaps it may be many more-of human beings to speedy and violent death. . . . Ah, but this time it was not so easy. . . . For the first time Nazi blood has flowed in fearful flood. Perhaps a million and a half, perhaps two millions of Nazi cannon fodder have bit the dust on the endless plains of Russia...
...want to assure for our compatriots the comforts of eternal certitudes, the virtue of whose old-fashioned name I dare take in my mouth, of country, of discipline, of family and morals, and pride in the right and duty to work...
Vienna-born Marie Hauser, 45, was deeply attached to the wife and family of her employer, Captain Daniel Sickles, art-collecting official of Langley Aviation Corporation of Port Washington. But she hated the Captain, whose collection of paintings was the pride of his Manhattan apartment. Three weeks ago, while Mrs. Sickles and the family were vacationing in Bermuda, the Captain ordered Marie to ready up his country place at Hampton Bays, Long Island, for weekend guests...