Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lutine herself, 32-gun pride of the British Navy, which sailed Oct. 9, 1799, from Yarmouth Roads, laden with gold ingots worth $10,000,000. Some of the gold was to pay off the English army fighting the French in Holland; the rest was to soothe a banking panic in Hamburg. Half her cargo was insured with Lloyd's. In the North Sea a storm hit her. With bare poles she ran before the wind, struck on the island of Terschelling at the mouth of the Zuider Zee, and sank in 50 feet of water...
...species. During the War many a strong girl got a man's job toting letters from door to door. At least one who still functions is Katie E. Philpot, 44, of Williamston, N. C. Famed otherwise for fine tobacco, corn meal and wild turkeys, Williamston takes pride in the slim, resolute figure of Katie Philpot marching dutifully through the north end of town every morning and afternoon, her slim back bent under a weight of farm papers, religious tracts and mail-order literature, her slim legs encased in black cotton hose below neat knickers of Post Office grey...
Only by remembering that Bulgaria was "the worst beaten nation in the World War," has since been shackled by the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Neuilly, could neutrals realize the pride and joy with which every Bulgarian read the showered leaflets...
...water colors from the Index of American Design. Like the State Guides produced by the Writers' Project, this nationwide compilation is the outcome of WPA teamwork. The stimulation of group work appearing elsewhere among the 320-odd paintings, prints, murals and sculpture on view was an occasion for pride to Daniel Catton Rich, the Art Institute's cheerful, hulking young director...
...photographs of Alfred appeared in the newspapers. With mild irony Mr. Cohen, who is a house painter, said that he could not see what all the excitement was about, since it did not look as if there was any money in it. Teacher Bibel was divided between his pride in Alfred's progress and his fear that the boy might get a swelled head...