Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reports, was not circulated. Greetings were read from Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who was one of the founders of the League. ¶ Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, declared in a speech: " I am a politician of the most hard-boiled and shelled-back variety-and proud of it." ¶ Lord Robert Cecil spoke on the League of Nations and the desirability of the United States entering it. ¶The League, by resolution, pledged its support to the President's World Court proposal as a first step toward international amity...
...learn much about the attitude of England toward Napoleon by an examination of the records of Parliament, but we must turn to Coleridge before we dare say that we understand this attitude. In America the development of the original thirteen states into a unified nation, conscious and proud of its independent existence, can be traced in our literature no less surely than in the pages of Channing...
...first move will be to lock myself in a room and finish it. It will be my farewell to politics." The cafeteria business, which she abandoned at the time she entered Congress, she will not reenter. She expects to live on her farm. The chief point that she is proud of in her Congressional career is the passage of a bill providing free transportation through the mails for publications for the blind...
...Ford's men. (P. 26.) Rabbi Wise, orating in a Methodist Church. (P. 26.) Gilbert M. Hitchcock-not too proud to be a journalist. (P. 21.) Rear-Admiral Weeks. (P. 7.) Brainless women-who make the best wives. (P. 19.) An average speed of 250 miles an hour-in a blinding sandstorm. (P. 27.) Victor Hindmarch-when his non-stop dancing partner retired a-faint, he continued with a woman spectator. (P. 31.) "Laddie"; Sanford - American sportsman. (P. 28.) A Supreme Court potent enough to do "ten times as much work as it did in the days of Marshall...
...times the price of his complete works to know that he parts his left eye-brow in the middle. What reader does not find new zest in the works of James Branch Cabell, after learning that that urbane satir ist does most of his writing at night, is proud of his distinguished ancestry, and boasts a highly protective spouse? Or in those of Joseph Hergesheimer after being told for the first time that he began life as a student of painting, lavished a for tune on a few exuberant weeks in Venice, and is a discerning judge of cocktails, tobacco...