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...Britain won her proudest boys...
...Proudest father in Washington's official family is Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring, a bachelor until four years ago. Proudest mother is Secretary Woodring's pretty young wife, Helen Coolidge Woodring, daughter of Massachusetts' ex-Sena-tor Marcus Allen Coolidge, who bore him their third child last February. Last week proud Father Woodring requested every officer and enlisted man in the U. S. Army and every member of the Civilian Conservation Corps to write a letter to his mother on Mother...
...came limping into smoke-blackened, ruined Richmond after Lee's surrender. Broken, beaten, he could still wish that Lee had ordered them to fight on. Even now that the bugles would blow no more, he could think of nothing but the war that had been his life; his proudest memory would always be that as the Old Man rode slowly by for the last time, he had reached out and touched his stirrup...
...concertmaster is to an orchestra what the stroke oar is to a crew. He sits closest to the conductor (coxswain), takes his orders direct, sets an example to the other players. NBC sent for Mischakoff because, when Arturo Toscanini arrives to conduct Radio's proudest symphonic programs, the NBC Orchestra must have a stroke of the calibre to which the old maestro is accustomed...
...master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing; And here she stands, touch her whoever dare; I'll bring my action on the proudest he That stops my way in Padua...