Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agent for this purpose could Mr. McAdoo have found than a Dry and a Catholic whose prestige began to surpass his own as long ago as the 1924 convention? At that convention, Senator Walsh waved aside sure acclamation for the Vice Presidential nomination. Last week, he accepted with dignity, pride and an accent already presidential, the news that a band of California delegates, headed by Mr. McAdoo, had declared for him and wanted to enter his name in their primary. Said he: "I was importuned some time ago to allow my name to be used and I simply said...
...successor has been in progress, and now the new building is almost ready for occupancy. Beautiful the new structure is, and larger and more convenient than the old, but it is a mockery, a hollow shell that has lost the priceless treasure that once made Louvain the pride of a nation. The manuscripts and volumes, all too scanty, that remained as the inheritance of the present world from the mighty Charles V and Thomas a Kempis are gone--"destroyed by German fury", some would say; but how can one nation be accused for a delirium in which the whole world...
...Zulu Rex, pride of the Negro population, tossed Mayor Walker a coconut which he caught with the words: "From one nut to another...
...must not fear to be accused of being provincial. Rome is the eternal centre of all civilizations. It is far more provincial to be afraid to appear provincial than to have courage to be oneself with sincerity and pride...
...golden harp between the shoulderblades, Jimmy McLarnin, lightweight, climbed into a roped square in Madison Square Garden. After one minute and forty-seven seconds of fighting he climbed out again onto the shoulders of yelling spectators. Alone in the ring with his handlers, a curly-headed Jew, Sidney Terris ("Pride of the Ghetto"), came slowly back to consciousness, asked what had happened, and began to cry. A single short right to the jaw had finished him. McLarnin, boxing sensation of the season, is matched to fight loafing Lightweight-Champion Samuel Mandell in June...