Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sold real estate, and now they have shifted to the buying side of merchandising and make railroads their specialty. Oris P. is 50, Mantis J. is 47; they are both bachelors; and, though some observers maintain that Oris P. is the Planner and Mantis J. is the Doer, they pride themselves upon being equal in all things and to share all things?even a reputed fraternal check book?in common...
...Harding nor unemployment remained a U. S. problem. It was primarily a Hoover Committee that made the report (President Hoover was Committee Chairman while Secretary of Commerce) and prosperity, not unemployment, was the burden of its story. Called upon to view with alarm, the Committee concluded by pointing with pride...
...landlord to the large district between Mount Auburn Street and the river Harvard has shown little more civic pride. Houses are rented and inhabited which would be better fitted to the surroundings of East Boston. Even in Shepherd Hall, a college dormitory, the accommodations are a disgrace to present-day housing standards...
...Yard, of Connecticut Hall at Yale and of Nassau Hall here at Princeton have about them a charm and tradition that calls to mind almost poignantly the older America of Colonial days. These colleges were nurtured in a sturdy and rugged individualism and a sound scholarship that is the pride of these institutions. But I must confess that I have somewhat the feeling that I would if they were to substitute a Gothic tower for the Capitol dome when I see the Gothic halls of Yale and Princeton and the invasion of Harvard by an artificial Quad system (and undoubtedly...
...Katheryn Howard, young, "very small and well-rounded with a delightful open expression." She had had lovers before, took another. Off came her head. Facing the block, she said: "I die a queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpeper." She had stabbed Henry's pride. He was getting fat, middleaged. Laws were passed to make it praiseworthy to tattle on a naughty queen, to make it fatal for a royal-bride-to-be to hornswoggle the king as to her virtue...