Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sturdy old Sir Walter Runciman, 80, yielded a mite further, last week, to the biblical sin of pride...
Last week rich, tangy Sir Walter Runciman was like to burst with pride when his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Walter Runciman, was returned to the House of Commons from a bye-election in the Constituency of St. Ives...
...curious and potent thing. The sea, the air, the jungle, the antipodes attract Irresistibly the craving for novelty so characteristic of humanity; and one needs no proof that this urge has been a tremendous factor in the progress in which each succeeding century takes pride. Success has perhaps gone a little to man's head; he takes mad chances and wins and in his cocksureness fails to take precaution in easier matters...
...Promoter. Ambitious to be Vice President, but doubtless open to persuasion, is Jesse Holman Jones of Texas. For four years he has been the Democratic Santa Claus. He is an astute banker and a big-scale builder as well as a booster. He can point with pride to having served with the late Henry P. Davison at International Red Cross conferences, representing President Wilson...
Some with pride, some with anxiety, investors read last week the annual reports of their favorite companies, compared the earnings, made conclusions...