Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tenn., gentlemen who published there the Tennesseean and who lately reached out to Memphis, to acquire the potent Commercial Appeal and Evening Journal. Having the Constitution owned by outsiders did not appeal strongly to Atlantans, than whom no people of the South are more filled with "booster spirit" (civic pride). But the news was mitigated by a notice that the Clark Howells, Sr. & Jr., would continue as publisher-editor and business manager respectively. This arrangement was part of the terms of sale. Atlanta was thus assured of its same old Constitution until the two Clarks shall cease their Howelling...
...Rubens came to Fifth Avenue via the salons of princes and potentates. The Van Dyck, worth perhaps $200,000, was one of a set of eight that were, until 1906, the pride of the Palazzo Cattaneo (Genoa) for three centuries...
...whose armies, originally one with the Hankow "Communist" forces, have now conquered the Southern half of China. Then, amid cheers and bugle blasts, came the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-an abundant fellow, massive, barrel-sized, jowled like a tiger, and last week unshaven, scowling, imperious in the pride of his new power...
When Law and Order boast with pride...
...cried-with joy. A big red-haired man with such a fine voice came out and sang a song about "Lucky Lindy . . Plucky Lindy . . ." all about "Lucky" Lindbergh, of course. Well, my son used to be called "Lindy," too, at High School, and it all just brought tears of pride to my eyes. For my son has been "Lucky" and "Plucky," too, and now has a fine position. Please print this letter, because there must be many mothers among your thousands of readers whose husbands have such names that their sons have been called "Lindy." Every such mother...