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...always kept his word . . . We had rules in our house. If your mother or father told you to do something, you did it. And they only told you once. The second time it meant a swat across the mouth." To this day, one of Jimmy Hoffa's proudest boasts-confirmed by people who deal with him-is that he always keeps his word...
...Medieval Spain had been the most tolerant land in Europe. There, Christian, Mohammedan and Jew had lived side by side in peace and, sometimes, in the closest friendship. Christian had fought Christian in alliance with Mohammedan. The proudest Christian families in Spain had intermarried with Jews; and Hebrew blood flowed in the veins of the greatest prelates in the land...
...honorary citizen, and for an instant it seemed as if she might break down. Instead, Edith Hamilton, just four days short of 90, walked up to a microphone and in a firm voice declared: "I am an Athenian citizen! I am an Athenian citizen! This is the proudest moment in all my life...
...envy that surrounded her later life. Her father could afford to keep her at St. Catherine's for only a single term. But it was enough. In her 85th year, when she had been a friend of the former Queen of Spain and the Prince of Wales, her proudest boast was still: "I was educated at Benicia." It meant nothing to most of her listeners. It meant everything to Louise...
Curley's proudest boast is that he was always a friend of the poor. The Christmas basket, the $10 loan, the stay of eviction, the city job-all bought him votes, but also made his headquarters a "school, employment agency, court of domestic relations and poor man's 'psychiatric couch.'" He was the voice of the poor, too, railing down the years against the Brahmins of Back Bay, State Street and Harvard. Curley's long memory bears the imprint of the Yankee sign, "No Irish Need Apply," that was so frequent in his youth. Though...