Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stands on his unseen pedestal, raises his baton. To the elfing ripple of piano, the squeal of clarinet, the deep-throated protest of the bass saxaphone, and the triumphant laughter of the trumpet, the great gray house curtain rises slowly into the flies. Vanishing, it reveals the show curtain, pride of the company, whether of an appetite for clean fun in the academic halls there depicted, and a justifiable pride in this curtain which creates in advance the collegiate atmosphere for what Grantland Rice though "the only really convincing college show I have ever seen...
...Republican party does not come a miss. The ministry for former celebrities remain tranquil beneath the attacks of authors. But criticize the Jews, ancient or modern, and editors will write about stupid race prejudice; and the literati will devise new synonyms for moron, Nordie, and bigot. Race pride is a powerful and admirable force, but it would seem that the Jews could attain the desired friendly unity with the Gentile much sooner if the chord were not struck so loudly and often...
...many laughs out of a Boston crowd, because they take the play very seriously, but on the other hand the applause is greater at the end. However, I won't allow curtain calls during the play. The vanity of an actor is essential but if he has proper pride he will not stand for interruptions. He labors for an hour to create the impression that Smith and Brown are mortal enemies and then, after the first act, they come out and bow side by side, smiling happily...
...Words of apology fail me for having sunk His Majesty's submarine N. 6. My subordinates are killed by my fault, but it is with pride that I inform you that the crew to a man have discharged their duties as sailors and with the utmost coolness until their dying moments...
Politics itself is supposed to be a school. Few politicians endeavor to better themselves by formal study in midcareer. Washington newsgatherers last week pointed with pride to burly U. S. Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, onetime (1907-10) Harvard footballer and cum laude student, upon discovering last fortnight that he had enrolled for night classes (two per week), at the Washington Branch of the American Institute of Banking. Mr. Fish wanted to know more about he fundamentals of banking, not because of an appointment to any fiscal committee of the house, but because of a "situation which...