Word: priding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoped to keep its influence in both Arab camps. But could the Kremlin restrain its Iraqi partisans without in time destroying their enthusiasm? And was it enough for the Kremlin to remind Nasser sensibly of his economic dependence on Moscow? That unpredictable man had been known before to prefer pride to profit...
That prayer was not answered last week as the current theatrical bibliomania engulfed Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. If First Impressions resembles any fair lady, it is Jenny, the girl who could not make up her mind. The show wavers between Austen, Burrows and music-hall burlesque, and only the elegant Regency settings and costumes of Peter Larkin and Alvin Colt seem serenely self-assured...
...expensive policy "unlimited seconds" is strictly a Harvard institution, unique in the country. "The pride of the University is involved, and we will not drop this policy," Tucker states. Here, however, is another area in which board rates might possibly be cut. Why should Harvard stand in splendid isolation by serving seconds on meat? To serve 2,200 dinners, the Central Kitchen will usually order about 2,000 pounds of meat. Without additional servings, the amount purchased might be cut by as much as 15 per cent--with a corresponding reduction in rates. On the other hand, the quality...
Doris Lee Allen is the actress faced with the awesome responsibility of living up to Antigone's advance billing as the girl who would "Rise up alone against Creon, her uncle, the King." Tragic inevitability is embodied in Antigone, "the pride of Oedipus"; "Death was her purpose," and the matter of the burial of her rebel brother's body only a pretext. Miss Allen does a competent job, quite effective in quiet moments, but she is not heroic...
...hell!" she roared. "I have no money." The cabby summoned a bobby, who steered his charge to Liverpool magistrate's court, needed help from three more lawmen to lug the copper-tressed spitfire before the judge. The clerk asked her name. "To your regret and my pride, Sarah Churchill." In the box, Actress Sarah, 44, did nothing to help her cause by snarling ad-lib comments on the testimony, made an unconvincing plea of innocence on the stand: "I thought I was monstrously overcharged." Thinking otherwise, the judge fined her $5.60 for being drunk and disorderly. That afternoon, hiding...