Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs : Like all other TIME-reading Americans, I read Dr. Thorndike's G.G. requisites (Education, Dec. 13) and applied each as well as possible, with great civic pride, to our broadminded, mineral-water drinking, democratic town of 2,200 cattle-town citizens...
Grey Owl, pride of the Province of Saskatchewan, is in point of fact not a native Canadian, not a born Ojibway, not a full-blooded Indian. Vague about his antecedents he believes he was born Archie McNeil, son of a Scottish father and an Apache mother from the U. S. After a childhood in the U. S. he was adopted into the Ojibway tribe in Ontario, given the name Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, meaning Walks-in-Dark or Grey...
...Mayerling, Greta Garbo in Camille, Robert Montgomery in Night Must Full, Maria Ouspenskaya in Conquest, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth, Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola, Mathias Wieman in The Eternal Mask, Dame May Whitty in Night Must Fall. Unmentioned was Hollywood's 1937 pride, Paul Muni (Zola), recently accorded a niche in Hollywood's Hall of Fame in the Carthay Circle Theatre...
...last half of the history is devoted to the order's expansion in the U. S.-32 houses from Montreal to New Orleans, from Boston to San Francisco. Completed in 1929 was Villa Duchesne, the pride of the order, appropriately built at Clayton, St. Louis suburb, in the heart of the Great Valley...
Suddenly a squadron of Japanese bombers came tearing at the U. S. flotilla. Bombs struck and sank the Panay, burned and sank three Standard Oil ships. Bursting with pride at having scored four hits the Japanese airmen immediately flashed news of what they had done to Japanese headquarters in Shanghai. Meanwhile, in the muddy, choppy Yangtze, passengers and crew of the U. S. vessels kept afloat as best they could until ships of the British flotilla came to the rescue. Of 72 persons believed to have been aboard the Panay, 63 had been rescued at latest reports, an American seaman...