Word: priding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Election of a Brave. Actually they had other things in common: fear of Russia, fear (in some cases) of a resurgent Germany, fear of economic collapse. They also shared a vague pride in being citizens of what Churchill calls the famous continent, Europe. The minor squabbles between British Laborites and Tories at the conference showed clearly that the representatives of sovereign nations could act not as members of a British (or French or Belgian) bloc, but as Europeans with individual convictions...
...bequest last week when his will was read: ". . . the knowledge that I, their father and grandfather, had no share, not even once, in the installation or perpetuation of the Roosevelt (F.D.) dynasty . . ." Hopper's will added firmly: "With this knowledge they may always hold up their heads in pride...
...Understand?" Beside the Anzio beachhead, war-ruined Genzano calls itself "Little Stalingrad," takes pride in supplying table wines to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. Over half its 10,000 people (many of them unemployed, some dwelling in caves) support the Communists. Yet they are married in the church, have their children baptized, and are buried with a priest blessing the grave and a banner-bearing Communist official paying pompous graveside respects. Last Sunday an old woman peddling the Communist paper L'Unitá was surprised when asked what she and her fellow Communists would do about the church...
...portraits of well-fed merchant princes and other secular heroes, like the shrewd-eyed, poker-straight Doge Leonardo Loredano, resplendent in gold brocade and carved buttons, registered the pride and self-possession of the Renaissance itself. The work of Bellini's last years, in such paintings as the Toilet of Venus and Feast of the Gods, anticipated the frank delight in the human form which filled the canvasses of his two greatest pupils, Giorgione and Titian...
...Kentucky, where men pride themselves on their ability to recognize good whisky, they tell a story to illustrate the art. Two Bluegrass Senators sat down to sample a barrel of bourbon. "Mighty fine likker," allowed one Senator tentatively. After rolling it over on his tongue he added: "But there's something in that barrel that gives it a slight metallic taste." The other Senator took a dipperful, disagreed. "It's a slight leathery taste," he said. Laying a wager as to which was right, they kept dipping until the barrel was empty, then turned it over...