Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolt of the peasants finds General Dolgorucki in the coal car of a railroad train, where taunting revolutionists are making him expiate his onetime pride and arrogance. Saved by the girl, he jumps off the train in time to see the long line of cars, one of which contains his dearly beloved, crash through a broken bridge into drowned and dismal wreckage...
Accountants of New York City pointed with pride to their balance sheet for 1927. It had cost $1,080,135,266 to run and improve the city for twelve months. This was $176,000,000 less than the total cost of running all Italy in 1927. It was almost twice the entire Belgian budget. It equaled about a fourth of the U. S. budget. . . . The second-largest U. S. city, Chicago, last week approved for 1928 the largest budget of its history...
Inasmuch as the author pessimistically presents his charge as a fiat accompli, it seems imperative to rise up and remind him that he is dangerously on the verge of offending certain Boston sport writers who pride themselves on having classified Harvard football long ago. Their diagnosis has boldly proclaimed that there are altogether too many "gentlemanly" gentlemen in Harvard football for its own good. Such a clash of reliable judgements naturally brings the question to an impasse...
...Pride swelled the bosoms of the publishers of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Transcript, the United States Daily and sundry other newspapers last week when statements by the State Department were made public by the Appropriations Committee of the House. The State Department had agitated to have its allowance for newspaper subscriptions raised from $700 per annum to $1,200. Particularly did che bosoms of Publisher Adolph S. Ochs and Business Manager Louis Wiley swell, because, concerning their newspaper, to which they have tried so hard to give unique completeness, the State Department said: "The paper...
Education, Crime Commission, Labor and Housing Laws-these were other headings in the Smith record to which, without elaboration by him, his friends could point with pride. Within a decade, New York had stepped up her education appropriations from 83 to 290 millions per annum. Her new penal code, drawn by a Smith-suggested crime commission under State Senator Caleb H. Baumes, had become the model for many another state...