Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after his afternoon performance at the RKO-Boston on Saturday, but down in the dressing room five of his boys were playing something soft and sweet on their saxophones. Fats grinned with pride and said that this was one of his latest compositions, "Jealous of Me." In a corner, writing on a dressing table, sat Dick Donaldson, arranger for the Waller orchestrations, writing notes by the dozens...
...preside over the activities of what its 440,000 members pride themselves on as the largest women's organization in the world, members of the American Legion Auxiliary elected Mrs. Malcolm Douglas, wife of a Washington State Superior Court judge. With her sash and diamond-&-platinum presidential pin, Mrs. Douglas accepted the responsibility of outdistancing her predecessor, Mrs. Oscar W. Hahn of Lincoln, Neb. (who traveled more than 50,000 mi. on the organization's expense account during her year in office), and set off at once with Legion officials to tour French battlefields and dedicate War memorials...
Through his solicitors in London, venerable Statesman David Lloyd George brayed a "very strong objection" to Trivial Fond Records, a book written by Sir Laurence Guillemard, oldtime British Treasury official. The passage deemed likeliest to have touched in Lloyd George the sensitive pride of all flesh: "He woke us all up at the Treasury, worried us to death, trampled on our most sacred feelings. We often sympathized with Mrs. Lloyd George, who is reported after exceptional provocation to have said that the first time she saw her husband he was in the hands of police and that she sometimes wished...
...times on the issue of Social Security. There is little excuse for an institution as well endowed as Harvard is, comparatively speaking, to have neglected to make suitable provision for its aged and faithful employees. If the University is to continue to call itself a progressive institutions, and pride itself upon holding a place of leadership in the United States, it ought to think of such things sooner, or at least endeavor to keep abreast of the times, instead of bringing up the rear...
They're here. Newspaper readers outside the city read about the impressive display with thrills of patriotic pride. New York merchants and hostel keepers warm to an inflow of money. Seven million New York civilians, now living in a state of joyous excitement, will be glad when the invaders go, for military shows are still so rare in this country as to be terrifying...