Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once or twice a year. On this fuel, if he is not yet slowed by tuberculosis or premature age, he can jog four miles an hour; at a canter, he can do six. There is a style to ricksha pulling. Author Lao Sheh (Ricksha Boy) says ricksha pullers take pride in an elastic, steady gait. Two Old China Hands once put it this...
London's balletomanes were bursting with pride over a local girl who had made good. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express boasted that the 26-year-old prima ballerina of the Sadler's Wells Ballet was "greater than Pavlova." Slim-limbed Margot Fonteyn was the hottest thing in English ballet since London-born Alice Marks became the great Alicia Markova...
...Express' enthusiasm, like its politics, was excessively nationalistic. Englishmen like to call London's 15-year-old Sadler's Wells company the National Ballet, and take pride in the fact that it owes little to the Russians. Margot Fonteyn is, in a complicated way, English. She was brought up in Shanghai, the daughter of an English tobaccoman named Hookham and a Mexican mother from whom she inherited an exotically high-cheeked face. She joined Sadler's Wells at 14. Two years later Fonteyn's arabesques appealed to the patriotism of the Morning Post: "Here...
...president appointed a committee, first just to do research for his editorials, but eventually to become the editorial board. Editorial scope only slowly transcended the bounds of the Yard, since the editors took (and continue to take) pride in the fact that reforms and improvements advocated on the Crimson's Page Two have so often been undertaken by the University administration...
...feel that it is with mingled regret and pride that the HARVARD SERVICE NEWS retires from Harvard's War Effort, regret that our association becomes history and pride in the knowledge of an accomplished mission...