Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radcliffe species, however, invariably use the bent arm method, pressing the textbooks to their heart, as it were. They regard the books as the dearest things they have on earth, and take pride in carrying a goodly assortment of volumes about...
...embarrassed by the wide publicity given his disparagement of Wagner, and has begun to hedge a little in his public statements. "Wagner, a genius . . . yo, yo, a great genius," he conceded airily to a recent interviewer. Earlier he had made no bones about his private estimate of the Pride of Bayreuth: "Wagner is rude, brutal, vulgar and completely lacking in delicacy! . . . For instance he shouts T love you, I love you.' To my mind that is something that you should whisper. . . . Look at his orchestration, that mass of different instruments in unison!" Wagner "suggests a butler who has been...
...world at large Finland, home of honest muscular seamen, has been more famous for her athletes than for her salons. But Tavasts and Karelians (all Finns are one or the other) point with greater pride to Finland's world's champion literacy record, boast that, except for 0.9% every last Finn today can read and write, exhibit Modernist Architect Eliel Saarinen as world evidence of Finnish culture. If you were to ask on the streets of a U. S. city who was the outstanding modern Finn, chances are the reply would be: Paavo Nurmi. But if you asked...
This week the gentlemen and ladies of Charleston, S. C. turned out to applaud their city's Footlight Players in the same Recruiting Officer, marking the opening of a splendid $350,000 resurrection of the old Dock Street Theatre, made possible by Charleston civic pride, plus FERA, plus WPA. A prettily conceited prologue written by DuBose Heyward, introduced the play...
Italian radio stations immediately broadcast Fascism's pride to the whole world. For 35 minutes stout young Bruno enjoyed being a world hero. Then suddenly a radio station of Italy's new "bosom friend" Germany made an announcement. With great satisfaction in a matter "particularly interesting," Berlin announced that Flight Captain Gerhard Nitschke, 32-year-old chief pilot of the Heinkel Airplane Works, had just flown a two-motored Heinkel-Benz airplane 621 miles, with a payload of 2,204 lb-(1,000 kg.) at a speed of 313 m.p.h.-46 m.p.h. faster than young Mussolini...