Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mails costing more to handle than they earn. Last year, it was announced, the postal service had run 137 million dollars into the red, which President Hoover considered a lamentable showing for the only "business" arm of a Government which its officials, in moments of pride, like to call "the biggest business organization in the world." Promptly President Hoover summoned to the White House Postmaster General Walter Brown and his four assistant postmasters general, told them something had to be done to reduce these ever-increasing shortages, to put the postal service on a "pay-as-you-go" basis. What...
Vigilant patriots last week pointed with pride to two news items recounting their country's advancement in transportation. Each item mentioned a new "biggest." They were...
...When you get over your mad and want to be reinstated what provision is there to make that easy and painless to your pride...
...question became further tangled when Representative James O'Connor of Louisiana, with true Celtic pride and vigor, sought official recognition for St. Brandan and "a number of Irish heroes" as the first voyagers, in the Sixth Century, to the new land across the ocean...
...efforts to belittle the dinner and to emphasize party dissensions served to rally many a Democrat to its defense. Senators who had declined asked permission to attend. Bishop Cannon denied he had attempted to scare anybody away. The sight of chuckling Republicans aroused party pride. Leaders again bent themselves grimly to the task of harmony...