Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks after the Imperial Government launched their big spring offensive to take Suchow, the checkmated Japanese War Machine was so far behind schedule last week as to stand disgraced, particularly since at all times the Japanese have had command of the air. Every Chinese was fit to burst with pride. Over-optimistic Chinese newspapers predicted the Japanese will now be driven back upon Tsinan. One who knows the real situation is Mme Chiang Kaishek, "Wife of 1937," who is at Hong Kong while her husband, Generalissimo Chiang, directs the desperate resistance of China. "The strain on the Generalissimo...
...Lampyman said to another. "After all, haven't we been boring our readers long enough? What stoops! Now that the building's going we don't have to drink in the middle of the street any more." He puffed up what amounted to his chest in pride. "For generations, suh, Lampoon men have done their drinking in the gutter...
Cultural Cleanup. Nazi commissioners were appointed to direct all Viennese artistic and cultural activities, in which Jewish influence has always been particularly strong. Nazi heads took over the National Library, pride of the Habsburgs and Vienna, the state Burg-Theatre and Opera House, three Jewish-owned playhouses, the Society of the Friends of Music, the Vienna Symphony and the world-famed Vienna Philharmonic. Jewish Conductor Bruno Walter resigned as director of the Vienna Opera and as Nazis ripped down name plates on Max Reinhardt Platz in front of the Salzburg Festival Theatre, Jewish Regisseur Reinhardt severed his connections with...
...White for that committee this week: "A policy of gradual liquidation as to some of the collateral and unrelated investments will be followed." Mr. Hearst has not always conducted his business as his bankers would have preferred. Once he had bought a paper, it was a matter of pride to keep it going as a unit in his one-man show. That policy Mr. Hearst dropped last July when he killed the New York American, explaining: "The newspapers that are favorites with me are the newspapers that are favorites with the public." Henceforth it is evident that the Hearst empire...
...steamship, 680 feet long, built in 1858. Most vessels then carried about 400 passengers. The Great Eastern accommodated 4,000- 1,800 more than today's Queen Mary. Forty years ahead of her times, the Great Eastern never paid her way, ended her days as a cable ship. Pride of London's show was a model of the late Mauretania, which held the Atlantic speed record for 22 years, was scrapped...