Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When bespectacled, downright Republican Frank Dwight Fitzgerald upset pious Democrat Frank Murphy in Michigan's gubernatorial election last November, he dealt a sad blow to New Deal pride. After turning out the man who turned him out in 1936, Governor Fitzgerald set about undoing (mainly by budgetary starvation) much of Mr. Murphy's Little New Deal. Last week a prevailing virus gave a new turn to Michigan politics...
...Lesbianism. French producers have not been obliged to resort to any such spectacular embellishments. Pictures like Club de Femmes, La Maternelle, Forty Little Mothers, Ballerina, make it apparent that French producers are interested in seminaries, kindergartens and sewing circles solely on their own merits, that they take a certain pride in being able to tell any kind of story from murder to romance in terms of regimented femininity. Prison Without Bars, a great European success in its original version last year, has been admirably remade in English. It differs from its predecessors principally in that this time the institution involved...
...could be extended to commuters, and, perhaps, to graduate students. If it must, in order to preserve its peace of mind, an ever-wary Harvard can accept the aid on a year-to-year basis; but in order to rise above pride and petty individualism, the University must at least accept what is certainly a government's enlightened generosity...
...Italian submarines, destroyers and lesser craft. Both sides lost heavily during the war. There were about eight engagements during which the Franco fleet's most notable losses were the battle ship España and the cruiser Baleares, Besides losing several submarines, the Loyalist battleship Jaime I, "pride of the fleet," was irreparably damaged, is now laid up at Cartagena...
...Thousands of francs poured in, and in 1888 President Sadi Carnot of France, surrounded by a brilliant throng of cheering scientists, opened the Pasteur Institute. But the new Institute came too late to the old genius who had! suffered taunts and gibes all his life. As he gazed with pride at his spacious new buildings and modern equipment he said sadly: "I have the poignant melancholy of a man who enters here beaten by time...