Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conviction that one of the Realmleader's greatest and most German strokes of statecraft was to lead the Fatherland out of the League. With Geneva thus in effect shut out of German affairs, Germans, on Mr. McDonald's showing, are reveling today in a carnival of race pride, race prejudice and exaltation of race...
Quickly the Jacobs family forgathered, jubilantly celebrated Christmas, birthday, anniversary, then packed their heroine off to Manhattan and glory. At her publishers' tea there Author Margaret Flint, swelling with pleased pride and a corsage of tea-roses, looked more than ever like Mrs. Jacobs of Bay St. Louis. One of her sponsors, in helpful vein, asked if she felt like a butterfly on a pin. "Rather a weighty butterfly," smiled 200-lb. Margaret Flint Jacobs. With five of her six children at home and a husband whose toll-bridge had been rendered bankrupt by Huey Long's free...
...abused widow of a man who not only betrayed her but also infected her son Oswald, Mme Nazimova, now 56, manages to convey every shade of pride, courage and despair, by her trick of singing rather than speaking her lines, by the manifold gestures of her hands and even of her back. Her supporting cast-McKay Morris, Harry Ellerbe and pretty Ona Munson, fresh from musicomedy-seems to have caught fire itself from the sparks of her genius...
Over on the rubber counter, an old attendant was busy helping his customers and watching out for sneak thiefs. He took great pride in the fact that "the greatest college" owned what appeared to him the greatest store in the world. "Yes, sir," he said, "I know Harvard is the owner; they've had it for over fifty years...
Shouting and banging imperiously for action, Comrade Ordzhonikidze stung Russians in their most sensitive spot-their pride-by telling them how the Capitalists who had sold tools to Bolsheviks were snickering up their sleeves, sure that clumsy Russians would never get the hang of mechanized technique. Already in Russia the breakdown of a machine was often the signal to shoot the operator "for sabotage." Commissar Ordzhonikidze demanded something more constructive...