Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quoted him; quoted from a speech Mr. Young once made at Harvard, when Mr. Young said: "Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not mean high profits for capital. What we need to know is the limits within which men may work with zest, spirit and pride of accomplishment." Just as Mr. Young's speech had originally startled old-fashioned employers, by its proximity to Labor doctrine, so did the quotation of Mr. Young at a Labor convention startle old-fashioned organizers. Should this keep up there would soon be nothing left for Labor and Capital...
...shame upon Negroes by taking an "esthetic" interest in their art. Mr. Van Vechten's real purpose, said Mr. Lyles, was to encourage and exaggerate Negro vulgarity and thus, subtly, pander to the "white supremacy" notion of Nordics. Let Florence Mills beware of Carl Van Vechten lest she, pride of "Race People," lose race caste...
...famed in his day as Samuel Johnson, who was wont to congregate there with his cronies Oliver Goldsmith & Thomas Chatterton. The Doctor always made for the left hand room and sat at a table near the window?a table and seat that is now pointed out with great pride to visitors. It is related that he would sit there for hours looking at the buxom dairymaids making cheese, afterwards explaining the merits of his famed dictionary to his friends. Exhausting this subject for the time being, he would rise and say to Boswell: "Come, let us walk along Fleet Street...
With confidence that is pathetic to me, who already knows its destiny, you are setting out a new tree. My pride in my college will not allow me to silently observe a repetition of the episode. I beg of you, unless you already know the perpetrators of this outrage, to inform me through the columns of the CRIMSON as to where I can talk with one of you unobserved. Very truly yours, A Friend...
Last week, passengers on the 20-year-old Cunard Liner Mauretania, swiftest pride of British fleets, found themselves in Manhattan only a little more than five days after leaving England-"second fastest boat crossing of all time." The Mauretania's 1924 record of five days, three & one-third hours has never been bettered. Before the Mauretania, new speed champions were built at the rate of twelve every 50 years. But there has been talk, which had become more specific by last week, that great wharves were about to be built at Montauk Point (at the easternmost tip of Long...