Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets of Buenos Aires last week the talk was of football and horse races and cattle fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house...
There had been hints of trouble. Last July, the Met's directors announced that the condition of the U.S.'s No. 1 cultural pride & glory was "critical." But few took the announcement seriously: hadn't the Met cried wolf before? Besides, the 65-year-old Met had just had three rare, glorious years (1944, 1945 and 1946) in the black...
Perelman was just leaving a little specialty shop in the Forties (he had been buying "a black girdle with rose panels and a bias-cup brassière" for his mother) when he ran slap into Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld-a man whose "cunning ferret eyes" share pride of place with a beard as frothy as "a zabaglione." The pair of them were eventually put under contract to make a trip round the world for Holiday magazine, and the result, excellently illustrated by Artist Hirschfeld, is one of the funniest books that Perelman has written. Subtitled "Around the World...
...writer is aware, as most of his characters are not, of the depth of mystery that lies behind the sorrow-as behind the pride-of the intellectual...
...great supercivilized bewilderment of New York City. Often they are presented in a dimension of depth, two or three generations rapidly telescoping into one terrifying puzzle of defeated hopes, rancor and self-ignorance. The types recur: the intense, ambitious, unimaginative older son who is the pride of the family and the one whom death cuts down; the hardworking, kind elder sister; the young girl, liberated and "radical"; the pampered shy and idle younger son; and the down-to-earth, eternally anxious, adoring mother who endures...