Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the House are such good sportsmen that, when what happened did happen they were really wrung with sympathy for bumptious Mr. Brand, after whose name in Who's Who appears the proud legend, "member of the Butter and Milk Commission under Herbert Hoover during the World War," but upon whose soul now rests the necessity of supporting the curious "boom" of his fellow Ohioan, Senator Willis. Never did a big butter-&-milk man undertake a braver job than attacking a once honored chief for the sake of a boss to whom he was now obligated. And never...
...carrying the impression of an unintentional austerity, of power, Cardinal Gasquet said to reporters that in order to fulfill the Pope's command: "I have given up everything to which I was attached in life." It was possible to imagine in the Cardinal a worthy successor to those proud Benedictines, monks of the Congregation of St. Maur-sur-Loire who helped to give the order its great tradition of scholarsh/p and learning: even to imagine in him a descendant of that hardy voyager who first collected the ancient chronicles, flowered with miracles and wars, to transmute them into...
...stops & treadles; and on them he pressed, shoved & stepped twice last week at a tempo & pressure that made, for example, his finale of Brahm's C Minor Symphony the fulminant of a Manhattan explosion of applause. The players were both glad that they were done with him and proud that their skill had met his demands. For the beat of his baton brevets a player an artist...
...midst of the crowded open space. A long knife gleamed wet in her upraised right hand, her naked body was streaked with rain." In August of 1793 Boukmann's rebellion started; a few days later it was over, the blacks had been beaten, a few of the proud houses had been burned to the ground. Henry Christophe watched the rebellion with careful sorrowing eyes, as he had watched the billiard games in the Hotel de la Couronne...
...York, Pa., one Joseph Hantz, bum, was arrested for trespassing. Hearing of this arrest, L. D. Hantz, Assemblyman, no relative but proud of the name of Hantz, went to court to plead for Joseph. When his pleas were successful, proud Assemblyman Hantz gave slouching Bum Hantz the price of his fine together with a oneway ticket to Washington...