Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the magnificent gesture peculiar to him, Gabriele d'Annunzio, now Prince of Snowy Mountain, wrote to the newspaper Provincia di Brescia affecting proud disdain of the world, the flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door...
...characters is, though a difficult artifice, perfectly persuasive. To say that we have advanced in our system of government since Revolutionary times is to say that Jefferson was right and Richard Bale was wrong. It is an opinion generally accepted. Mr. Hergeheimer, indeed, holds no brief for the proud Virginia Federalists. Their courtly manner of life was maintained at great social expense. This book reminds the reader that government by gentle men for their peers as against government by "the unbred for the. un desirable was a question once hotly debated...
Laurence Stallings America Should Be Proud...
...responsible for the book, though not for its absurdities?the glamour and the mystery of China, that strange Empire, whose people go about the grave business of life with a ceremonial as delicate as that of a fashionable tea, and about the trivial business of death with a proud and rigorous grandeur befitting heroes. In so much, Mrs. Miln is successful...
...meeting keynoted with "Is War Incurable?" by Fred B. Smith; and the Convention moved out to Wembley. There, crowded into the Conference Hall, the delegates sent up a great shout when a little figure, smart in grey, stepped to the dais. Said the Prince of Wales: "I am very proud to address this "Convention...