Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editors of Republican newspapers pointed with pride last week to "honest dignity" in Nominee Hoover. When his train paused in Montello, Nev., a woman thrust her child upwards to be kissed. The Nominee took the child and held it, but said: "I will kiss no babies for publication...
...pride-pointing Republican editors gave Nominee Hoover credit for something new in politics. But, as a matter of fact-_. A few days before the Hoover-Baby incident, Nominee Smith had been asked by press photographers at Albany to pose in the act of laying bricks. Nominee Smith refused and said: "I can't lay bricks, and any bricklayer that saw it would know I couldn't. That's a baloney* picture and I'm not going to stand for any baloney pictures in this campaign...
Democratic editors pointed with pride and credited their Nominee with this new thing in politics. But, as a matter of fact...
Master Stroke. Politically the Kellogg Treaty is an undoubted master stroke. Its existence will enable Candidate Hoover and other campaigning Republicans to point with pride to a resounding international achievement...
...Milwaukee, Charles Younggreen is a social lion as well as a Lion; he belongs to half the clubs in the state and is vice commander of his post of the American Legion. When Milwaukee plans a welcome, as to an aviator, Charles Younggreen superintends it with pride and efficiency; "Milwaukee's Grover Whalen" is a sobriquet of which he is proud. His house is a show place; his wife is a charming woman; he plays bad golf very well; he has lots of money and lots...