Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is, hardly ever. When Mr. Heath gazed majestically around upon the seven daughters with whom, in course of time, he was blessed, he could be seen to expand with the proud air of one who has nobly done his duty...
Garden ef Weeds. A collection of hireling hoydens from the chorus rent but their love to a promiscuous promoter of Wall Street. On his estate at Asbury Park, N.J., he gives jamborees which scandalize the neighborhood. It is this millionaire's proud boast that he can make any Woman subservient to his lecherous leanings by muffling her good impulses in the mortal coil of evil environment...
...students, to feed them at the cafes and restaurants, to sell them books, to photograph them on foot and on horseback, singly and in groups, with courtplastered scars on their faces, or with dogs; to keep their daughters from flirting too outrageously with students and yet to be proud of such romances; to nudge each other when meeting a famous professor on the street, and to retail to each other bits of academic gossip. There was much that was petty in this life, much that smacked of the provincial, but also much that was friendly and noble-frank esteem...
...there is balm for the broken spirited, in spite of it all. A mere up-start who wins his way to the proud title of duke pays for his vanity o ver thirteen thousand dollars, so that the belted earl whose coronet has come down from father to son through dim and distant generations can comfort himself with the reflection that the ambitious climber is charged a pretty penny for his purple. In fact so steep is the price that many honest laboring men find it more advantageous to refuse glittering but costly honors, and remain unadorned but wealthy members...
...living for six weeks behind a barricade of sugar barrels and rice bags. Though in constant danger, she enjoyed the sugar-ever at hand for tea. Once she read her own obituary in a Peking newspaper. Said she: "There were three columns of it, too! I was never so proud." She excelled in geology while at college, and later, with her husband, translated from medieval Latin the first work ever written on mining and metals, entitled Agricola, by George Bauer. For this, they received a gold medal from the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America...