Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan under Emperor Hirohito has much in common with England under Queen Victoria. Last week every Japanese read with pride a state-of-the-nation speech delivered to the 73rd session of the Imperial Parliament by Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. It might have been Lord Palmerston speaking, it might have been years ago, but it was actually Mr. Hirota voicing the aspirations of Japan in terms as serene as those used by Queen Victoria's ministers to express their gratification at the progress of Imperialism...
...Buzzard speaks of his late brother Abe humbly, with a certain amount of family pride. Says Joe: "He was the best derned hoss thief in the country." If Joe is not so good a horse thief as his brother, he is equally persistent. The first time he was caught stealing a horse from a farmer in Lancaster County, Pa. was in 1878. The last time...
Such theorizing may be tested if imports of raw silk continue to decline. Militant boycotters point with pride to July when some $4.000.000 was lopped off the $10,940,000 worth of raw silk Japan sold the U. S. in January. October's $8,327,000 slipped to an estimated $6,300.000 in November...
...much to expect, of course, that the scenario writers can make each line original as well as humorous; but just the same, you are conscious of the presence of well-wrinkled repartee. It doesn't make Bette Davis look prettier to hear her say: "I'll swallow my pride and go to him"; after the first laugh Leslie Howard seems a bit silly to say, when a knock on the door finds him in the arms of his stage partner, "Your husband." Perhaps you are the kind who can overlook the bad and remember only the good; then, you will...
...role of "Juno" Boyle, who receives her divinely regal name for the internal reason that everything in her life happened in June, but for dramatic reasons less fortuitous. F. J. McCormick has created his part of "Joxer" Daly, the fawning hanger-on and salve to the Captain's petty pride, and his rendition of the character is therefore perfect. All the lesser roles are filled with skill to be expected only of acors so devoted to their work as the Abbey Players...