Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give your all to help old Dunster win that old athletic trophy, though there are those who do care about athletic trophies. You are never embarrassed because you don't give a damn whether Dunster wins that old athletic trophy or not. It is a matter of considerable pride with us that there is no artificially stimulated House spirit of any sort whatsoever...
...everyday life. "Most people, because of the limitations of economic hazards, could not step out from their narrow sphere of life, so pressing were the obligations of the home. If we insure a man of a more reasonable tenure of office, then we shall get an increase in pride of public service...
...expected. The Allard place was plundered and burnt by the Yankees ; old Mr. Allard got a stroke from the shock. At war's end, with the slaves run away, the plantation ruined, stay-at-home Brother Jim brought discredit on the Allard name by swallowing his pride, keeping store...
Because the work of all these men is very well known, the Whitney Museum went to great pains to see that the pictures and drawings honoring them should be comparatively new to the Manhattan art world. Pride of the museum is George Bellows' great canvas of the Dempsey-Firpo fight. Because it had been shown so many times, it was not included in the present exhibition. Borrowed from the Cleveland Museum to take its place was the equally important Stag at Sharkey's. So with the other artists: whenever possible, paintings and drawings were borrowed from collections which...
...have athletic paraphernalia as well as courses to sell, Mr. Atlas' dynamic tension is a continual thorn, particularly when used, as it always is, with the phrase "the world's most perfectly developed man." Mr. Atlas talks about the beauty of his body with the impersonal pride of a steelmaster describing the finest rolling mill in existence. What his competitors question is how much of Mr. Atlas' physical assets was acquired by dynamic tension...