Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chastened by the laying on of a knotted rope end. That occurred when, as a stripling of 12, he ran away from home and signed on as cabin boy to a certain savage skipper. Today he controls the great Newcastle shipping firm of Runciman & Co., Ltd., and is proud to sit in the House of Commons. Prouder still is he of the fact that his son, also Walter, also sits in the House...
...most. It is strikingly clean and kept in good repair by the inmates. Each cell has individual toilet facilities and a catalogue of the prison library of 5,000 volumes. There is also a baseball field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...
Further down towards University Hall an original gentleman trots along in a beret, very proud of the scornful looks and sotto-voce remarks wasted on him. Up the steps of Widener stamps an immaculate professor in an equally immaculate light grey felt on his way to the furthermost stacks of the Library...
...nothing short of remarkable. . . . Willis advanced by leaps and bounds in college; and while yet in knee pants, so to speak, became a teacher and professor of law. His neighbors sent him to the legislature of his own state, then later to the lower house of Congress and so proud of his career were the people, that they put him in the seat occupied by the beloved William McKinley as Governor. The one time he was defeated for office was not by a Democrat or a Republican but by John Barleycorn-just before this sum total of all things iniquitous...
...King George" and other defaming phrases, both before and after suspending him as superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued him for libel...