Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acting, with his dry humor, kindliness, and philosophy. Mr. Gilbert's part was not difficult and he handled it creditably, giving just the proper touch of nonchalance to his role. Miss Bushnell deserves special commendation, for the understanding way in which she portrayed the loving high-spirited, proud, spiteful Elizabeth Her lines--quite difficult in spots--were given in a truly effective manner...
...engines in a final effort to escape. Five-inch guns, then 14-inch rifles will pour their fire into her. To prolong her agonies special shells will be used and wireless-controlled pumps will try to keep her above water. If by some desperate chance she survives, the once proud Iowa will be sold as junk. Night attacks upon the Panama Canal defenses, thought to be impregnable, will be made under the glare of searchlights and beneath the Caribbean moon. Two scout fleets of fast cruisers and destroyers will contest each other under cover of smoke screens and protecting airplanes...
...Freehold, N. J., a 125-year-old Negro celebrated his birthday by turning a handspring, threading a needle and proclaiming that he was proud of his 97-year-old daughter...
...elusive brilliant line for the close of his column. Heywood Broun, lumbering, absorbed, but always jovial, is usually present. Of all persons to be accused of literary chicanery, he is the least guilty. Honesty of judgment is characteristic of him. He is childishly interested in his own writing, and proud of it, just as he is childishly interested in and proud of his own child. With him may be Ruth Hale, his wife, whom Mrs. Atherton has quite definitely marked in her novel as the lady of the Lucy Stone League who refuses to visit Europe because her passport must...
...whether all of these ideas are carried out or none of them, the new "back country" remains a tremendous resource of which Yale may well be proud...