Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble is," he asserted, "that the middle class retains its highly developed class pride. If refuses to look at the situation as a whole and is willing to put the importance of the own convenience above general principles...
Instead of prudently turning back the Loyalist destroyer rounded Europa Point, Gibraltar's southernmost tip. As she did so a Rebel cruiser hove into sight from the African shore. Six more Rebel warships, cruisers, destroyers, minelayers soon joined the chase. Guns from the 10,000-ton cruiser Carnarias, pride of the Rebel fleet, boomed. Batteries from Ceuta. in Rebel-held Spanish Morocco, some 15 miles across the Straits, bellowed. The destroyer, outclassed, nonetheless elected to fight. A shell struck the Jose Luis Diez's forecastle, killed four men. One of her own guns exploded and killed more...
...Dallas' Cotton Bowl, twice-defeated St. Mary's (of California) handed ambitious Texas Tech (pride of the Panhandle) its first defeat (20-to-13) after ten victories...
Four weeks ago, three days apart, Cadet Stella was elected captain of the Army football team for 1939, Midshipman Bergner was elected captain of the Navy football team for 1939. At last week's powwow, Kankakeemen, puffed with pride, appointed a delegation to see President Roosevelt to try to get next year's Army-Navy game transferred from Philadelphia to Chicago...
...never lost his admiration for things American, or his pride in the language he had learned as a boy. He corresponded with American friends in English, taught English to his household servants, sent two Japanese girls to the Chicago World's Fair to introduce tea ice cream to America. Last year when an American friend toasted his 92nd birthday (Japanese are one year old at birth) he said he expected to live to be 125. But he had previously transferred his title to his son, Taro, and was ready for death. Last week it came to Tycoon Takashi Masuda...