Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bursting with pride and conjugal affection, brash little Broadwayman Billy Rose proclaimed that, his New York World's Fair Aquacade ended, its vivid, dark-eyed queen, Eleanor Holm Jarrett Rose, would "retire and run our home." Trilled Aquabelle Eleanor: "I had a wonderful dream last night. I dreamed I woke up and my maid said, 'Your bath is ready. And I just laughed and told her, 'I'm never going to get in the water again...
Olson brings out the design and freshens up the colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...
Last week they took time off. Men who work with the earth take pride not only in production but in the way the job is done. On the Henry Keppy farm near Davenport, 125,000 farmers and their families gathered to see how the job was done by the best of them at the annual national cornhusking contest...
Today the Marines still have a fanatic pride in their Corps, accumulated through the years by service in foreign parts, in troublous times. As in 1800, Marines are still preoccupied with smart appearance, cling jealously to fancy dress uniforms of blue, scarlet and gold, raise their sea soldiers in the spit-&-polish tradition. A pressing table and a board for polishing brass buttons are as much a part of Marine equipment as rifles and bayonets. Marines have never forgotten that their crack-shooting riflemen in the tops of the Bon Homme Richard helped John Paul Jones to glory against Britain...
...torpedo would make two miles an hour and could be steered. In hours of darkness, Rossetti and Paolucci maneuvered this strange craft through and over the nets and booms of the harbor, removed one of the war heads and attached it to the side of the battleship Viribus Unitis, pride of the Austrian Navy. The other war head they cut adrift in the tideway. The former sank Viribus Unitis, the latter drifted against and blew up the battleship Wien...