Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time. ..." She died at 94 in the house with the green shield, in Jew Street. "Here," she used to say, "I have seen my sons grow rich and powerful, and I will leave them their prosperity, for they would certainly lose it if I were to give way to pride and quit my humble home...
...would rather watch the love-antics of moorfowl at sunrise than slaughter them. In the white castles and proud manors, dames still drill their men-servants, still preserve an ancient ritual for meals and marriage, dancing and death. Yet there is a lady, brainless perhaps, whose love transcends pride and ancestors. Baronial Germany, decadent, is threatened with perception. Light shows through the chinks of crumbling castle walls...
...realize that your Christian Christ had a "loop in his nose," and for the same reason that I have one in mine? Your innuendo is powerless to affect the pride of a Jew in the symbol of his race...
...have been motoring up and down the land, their headquarters, the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission at Berlin, has hummed with the click of typewriters, and reverberated to the tread of generals. All this has cost Germans a pretty penny? $15,000,000 in money and much in wounded pride. It was swept away last week. And one of the Allied officers, an Italian, who could not bear to give up the dignity and consequence he had enjoyed for seven years, committed suicide...
...reporters Seņor Pani showed his sharp white teeth with a quick smile. He was on his way to Paris, he said, there to become Mexican Minister. He pointed with pride to an announcement made last week by Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co. that Mexico has paid in full the interest on her external debt to U. S. investors for 1926. Seņor Pani, as Mexican Finance Minister, put through this payment...