Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunk by her captain's orders, a woeful sight to see, No more shall rise Germania's pride, the Admiral Graf Spee...
Germany's meat ration is one pound, 1.6 ounces per person per week. Germany takes pride that, under totalitarian control, her wholesale food prices have advanced only .5% while Great Britain's are up 24%. In World War I, Britain did not ration meat until February...
...Officer Sughrue. His police-box in the Square has endowed him with philosophic calm. The busses and street-cars are passing phantoms, but the bits of human nature that Sughrue observes are real and lasting. He likes to watch for each new crop of Radcliffe Freshmen and takes pride in his ability to spot the "belles dames" of the Fall Season. Progress is slow at first. The Freshmen stroll through the Square, alone and un-eyed. In a week or two Sughrue is quick to note the presence of an occasional escort. Sughrue swears that he has no personal interest...
...outfit into national significance, and give James a sounding-board for his fuzzy ideas. And the Dies Committee may not be at all averse to the idea of exploiting the publicity angles of a fascist movement with a Harvard backdrop. To prove impartiality, the Committee would point with pride to the fact that they had "exposed" another rightist group, as evidence of its impartiality. But they would have set up a straw man and knocked him down; while powerful and significant reactionary forces--for example, Father Coughlin's group and the National Association of Manufacturers--are left alone...
...wrote a film version of Eve Curie's life story of her mother. Garbo was to have played it, but the story was shelved. Just completed, in collaboration with Jane Murfin, is an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...