Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard-boiled point of view of Great Britain's Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George: that since the attitude of a belligerent is governed by "the exigencies of deadly strife, the country which is determined at all costs to remain neutral must be prepared to pocket its pride and put up with repeated irritations and infringements of its interests . . . and should the difficulties of neutrality prove too great, it is left with the choice of treating the violation . . . as a casus belli...
...they announced: "They [U-boats] have found the pace too hot for them and have retreated from much-used shipping channels and are now forced to operate out in the open sea where the 'catch' is bound to be a much smaller one." The British pointed with pride to their convoy system, revealed that a flotilla of 15 freighters had arrived safely from Canada bringing 500,000 bushels of wheat. Pointing with pride also to Britain's blockade of Germany, Winston Churchill gleefully declared that Britain had seized 150,000 more tons of contraband than...
Broun's survey of the "Red Cap" situation shows that men tip more generously than women, and that women tip more in proportion to their homeliness. College girls carry their own bags despite their pride in feminity; a mild exception in favor of Wellesley and Smith is made by the "Red Caps...
...which he had attended only one fire, and that at his own house. Absentee fines cost him $150 to $200 a year, which were more useful to the fire department than his personal services. Said he: "When I was young and in my prime I was filled with civic pride. I joined the hook and ladder and they gave me the privilege of driving the hind legs." Back in the U. S. after almost three years of voluntary exile in London was William Tatem ("Big Bill") Tilden II, fresh from tennis triumphs over Henri Cochet and Donald Budge...
...middle of the Atlantic when war broke out was the pride of the Polish merchant fleet, the 16,000-ton Batory, Captain Eustazy Borkowski. Captain Borkowski doused his lights, watched for submarines, brought his liner safely into New York harbor with 352 U. S. citizens aboard...