Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement: "I am happy to come here ... to pay a tribute of admiration to my good friend . . . and through him to the great race which is proud and fortunate to count him among their...
...intimate biographer there is an embarrassment of riches in Francis Joseph's circle?the unhappy Empress, proud and beautiful, stabbed by an anarchist; Archduke Max, strangely Emperor of Mexico; Archduke John Salvator who disappeared into the Pacific; the Crown Prince Rudolf mysteriously and horribly a suicide; and finally the next heir apparent, Franz Ferdinand, fatefully killed at Serajevo. But these dramatics are insignificant facts in Author Redlich's account of the final struggle between time-honored legitimacy and modern nationalism?Francis Joseph granting his people universal suffrage and a parliament, and then stultifying the gesture by reserving his absolute power...
...Proud of this connection with England's ancient glories, the managers of the modern commercial Hotel Cecil give an elaborate annual luncheon to bumpers and bumpees...
...many a politician, spent much time on the long distance telephone during both the Kansas City and Houston nominating conventions. He does not, however, meet any of his friends on golf courses. Mr. Ungerleider never had a golf stick in his hand. And of this eccentricity he is extremely proud...
...great increase in the size of the University has not been allowed to bring with it the standardization of production which has so often accompanied rapid development in the United States. The three hundred year old liberal tradition of which Harvard is so justly proud, has never been more carefully fostered than during President Lowell's administration. Undergraduate papers have been indiscreet, members of the faculty have outraged bands of zealous alumni, but President Lowell has defended them to the utmost no matter how out of sympathy he may have been with the opinions expressed. His own vigorously independent nature...