Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Balfour & Co. glowed with pride as their "Richlin Ostrich Feathers" elicited from His Majesty: "I want to deny the rumor that I have a prejudice against ostrich feathers...
...Wilkie Collins and Gaboriau, would certainly mention Dashiell Hammett, "Francis lies," Dorothy Sayers. While admitting that run-of-the-mine murder stories bear as little resemblance to reality as a crossword puzzle and are pieced together with as little regard for grammar and probability, they would point with pardonable pride to such a book as Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night. Gaudy Night is not such a gaudy title as might be supposed. It refers to an Oxford colloquialism, "gaudy" (from Gaudeamus igitur), which is the equivalent of the U. S. "college reunion." Readers who are unfamiliar with Author Sayers...
Every year Harvard graduates several men whose intended career is the theatre and its allied arts, and she may point with pride at many illustrious examples, such as Osgood Perkins, Walter Hampden, Kenneth Macgowan, John Mason Brown, and Donald Oenslager. Back in the days of Professor Baker's English 47 and the Workshop, the stream of Harvard men into the theatre's ranks was steady and large, but with Professor Baker's and the Drama department's migration to New Haven, the torrent dwindled to a mere trickle, fed only by the untiring efforts of the Dramatic Club. The students...
First notable, prodigy was big-eared, bespectacled Lewis Anthony Dexter, offspring of two Ph.D.'s, pride of a Kendal Green, Mass. Progressive school. He scooted through Chicago in 17 months, grabbed his A.B. last March on his way out. That record stood until August when a 35-year-old Chicago housewife, Mrs. Martha Friedman Marenof, graduated in 16 months, a Phi Beta Kappa...
Last week these performances began to look amateurish when the University of Chicago pointed with pride to Donald MacMurray, graduate of a Bronx high school at 15. Now 21 and taking up his education again after five years spent over the chess boards and bridge tables, he is seeking not only an A. B. in May, eight months after entering the University, but also his Master's degree in August. Super-Scooter MacMurray has already taken seven of nine comprehensive examinations needed for his bachelor's degree. Score: four...