Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pride. German forces proudly let it be known that they had captured a mammoth 120-ton tank bearing the name PRIDE OF STALIN. The trouble with Comrade Stalin's pride was said to be that it could go only six miles an hour...
Adolf's Pride. The Germans cabled to the U.S. a picture which they said showed some Nazi shock troops proudly holding a Russian battle flag which they had captured in bitter fighting. Anyone who could read Russian could see that the flag was a Boy Scout pennant. Its inscription: Be Prepared-Be Prepared...
Humane boss of the most famed prison in the U.S., Lawes said with proper pride, when asked how his 2,500 inmates felt about his retirement: "Some of them will probably feel bad." Some famous Lawes charges: City Editor Charles E. Chapin, Richard C. Whitney, Nazi Fritz Kuhn, Tammany's Jimmy Hines...
...Newport Casino, having swallowed its pride and opened its tennis courts to all who could pay, has swallowed again and let a Naval officers' club come right indoors. Mrs. Herbert Shipman, widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, is offering to any hotelman who can pay for it the sprawling Cliff Walk estate built by her late, famed father, Edson Bradley. Furnishings of fabulous Rosecliff, $2,500,000 estate of the late Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, will be auctioned on Bastille Day. Reported hungry for the house and grounds are the Navy and the United Service Organizations. Princess...
Cobb and Ruth, contemporaries for more than a decade, took intense pride in their achievements. Their pride, fanned by sportswriters, kindled into a crackling feud. Cobb used to call Ruth "that big baboon," and Ruth would bristle at Cobb's mere name. Recently sportswriters tried to rekindle the dying embers. They told Ruth what a good golfer Cobb is (Cobb once shot 71). They told Cobb what a good golfer Ruth is (Ruth once shot...