Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student body as answered the questionaires on the subjects of God and immortality. It is a matter for relief and gratification that such canvasses are not in favor in Cambridge; for whatever one's personal opinions--which at Harvard remain personal--it is not an occasion for pride to be quoted as an ally of those who sponsor the present campaign. The ghosts of Paine and Ingersoll and all other gods of the village atheist revolve rapidly in their graves...
Lindbergh. It was a modest, a natural, a lovable, a well-prepared man whom Europe honored laet week, while the U. S. swelled with pride and prepared a homecoming. Unquestionably, Captain Lindbergh is a more stimulating hero than Admiral Dewey ever was. He conquered alone-with only his monoplane; he had no Gridley, no escorting fleet...
Such a madman, such a King, could touch the Bavarian heart, fire imaginations, make the very enormity of his follies a .source of national pride. "What country but Bavaria could produce a king so mad as ours?" asked contented tradespeople as they grew rich supplying his luxuries. Even today, Ludwig II, who drowned himself in a fury at last, seems a hero to Bavaria...
...idle dreamer, Mr. Wood is shrewd enough to boom the fat daily as a necessary corollary to his new high-speed printing and feeding machinery. He is one of those manufacturers who take pride in combining the appearance of an English aristocrat with an up-to-the-moment knowledge of aeronautics, yachting, advertising, printing...
THERE are two types of the literary college professor: the stodgy ones who edit, say, the works of George Lillo with compendious notes, of whom all college students have seen far too many specimens, and the sprightly ones who pride themselves on keeping up with the latest vagaries of the inexplicably unscholastic. Stuart, Sherman was one of the best of the second type a man whom Illinois University students revered as if he had been a combination of Doctor Johnson, Barrett Wendell and William Lyon Phelps, and whose directing of the Herald-Tribune Book Review endeared him to that dreadfully...