Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Cowl expressed pride in the fact that she holds two Shakespearian records: first for the most performances of any Shakespearian role, which she holds as a result of 698 performances of Juliet; and second, for the presentation of Juliet seven times a week a thing which she did frequently but which no other actress has ever attempted because of the physical and emotional strain of the role...
...other members of the U. S. delegation climbed the long, steep, first class gangway. Lest anyone should attribute pride or ungraciousness to 23 Wall St., Mr. Morgan's partner, Thomas W. Lamont, walked the common plank with Mrs. Lamont ; and both smilingly endured flashlights. Since Mrs. Owen D. Young is ill in Arizona, her tall, potent husband, Chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, mounted the Aquitania alone, with his loose, powerful stride...
...long letter Mr. Mellon presented facts which made Senator McKellar's proposal ridiculous - such as, for example, that the Board of Tax Appeals is already 20,000 cases or three years in arrears. Then after stating with just pride that no one had ever charged corruption against the Bureau of Internal Revenue, he concluded: "The real issue is whether the income tax is to be ad ministered by the executive branch of the government in accordance with every precedent and every sound principle of gov ernment, or is to be turned over to the judicial branch...
...President warned against pride. Brightly he illumined the need for further constructive economy. "A short time ago," he stated, "there were pending bills which would have doubled our annual cost of government. Had there not been a constant insistence [by the speaker] upon rigid economy, many of these bills would have become law. A decrease of less than 10% in the income of the nation would produce a deficit in our present budget...
...Behrman (The Second Man) wrote the play. Jed Harris, the ill-shaven producer whose perhaps somewhat mercenary pride recently forbade him to present Ina Claire in The Gaoler's Wench, was inclined to think well of Serena. He ordered Robert Edmond Jones to design some sets and procured Ruth Gordon with her soft, broken voice and her abruptly delicate gestures to play the part of a lady who "possessed every imaginable charm of appearance and behavior...