Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tank car of linseed oil with which to speculate. When business is slack they retire to a game room, play ping-pong and poker on company time. All but three have relatives on Scientific's staff-a compact nepotism summed up by O. E. with parental pride: "It's a Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance payroll and never lets the ball get out of the infield...
Stressing the opportunities for taking part in House activities in Leverett, David D. Henry '41, House Committee chairman, and the chairmen of the various activities outlined plans for the year to the Sophomores in the House at a meeting last week. The Bunny Glee Club, pride of the House, received particular attention as it is the only regular organization of its kind in the House system...
...threat to sue stumpy, pale Dr. Fernandez Artucio was too much for Uruguay's pride. Out of the files again came an 80-page indictment. Into the jug again went Nazi Leader Arnulf Fuhrmann and seven of his disciples. Führer Fuhrmann cheerfully admitted hatching the plot, insisted it was just a joke. After reports had been published of Nazi plans to invade Patagonia, he chuckled, he had built up the hoax to tickle the ribs of his fellow Germans in Argentina...
...strategy once more. Use his power plays, that was it. He had always done that the season's first game.--True, little Amherst was strong this year--he was vagly afraid--. Ah, but the Crimson was stronger. Eleven men,--and more. Eleven men, and Vag. Unbeatable! He recalled with pride on thrilling fall afternoon: a crimson-clad figure with the ball, a purple and white jersey almost on him; then a long, clear yell rising out of the confusion of sound, spurring him on past the purple and white to the goal line. Vag had given that yell. He would...
...compliment either to the virtues of Jane Austin's book or the maturity of Hollywood that "Pride and Prejudice" has maintained its integrity on its perilous journey from paper to film. It appears on the screen as a startling and refreshing example of a picture that clicks without having resorted to the run-of-the-mill movie formulas...