Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every American who is proud of being an American should be proud of the American Marines in Nicaragua...
Gubernatorial elections on the Mississippi's lower left bank are cross and colorful. Most Louisianans, state-proud, would rather be Governor than President. Republicans being as scarce in Louisiana as frogs in the Sahara, an all-Democratic primary such as was held last week, is all that matters...
...battlefield of Flanders, long years before certain armies met there to settle modern differences, a Dutch soldier was commended by his king. "Sire," he replied modestly, "I break before I bend." The King pondered a moment to confer the correct name on this excellent, albeit proud and slightly stubborn servant. He called him "stiff-necked" which being translated into Dutch is "Goethals...
Aries (rani), Mar. 22 to Apr. 20, governed by Mars. These people are intolerant, impulsive, aggressive, insufferably proud. The women tend to be more passive than the men, and are often free lances. If the Aries man is immoral, it is in a conventional way. But he is honest. Both men and women are subject to stomach trouble, fevers, apoplexy. They have a profile suggestive of a sheep. Under this sign were born James Thomas Heflin, Andrew William Mellon, James Branch Cabell, Mary Pickford, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Constance Talmadge, Charles Evans Hughes, the late John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Jefferson, Otto...
...eminence-and it is still high- Cincinnati has drooped, malnourished industrially. She has become draggled and dirty.* The bright ornaments that are her hospitals and colleges have only accentuated her drabness. The new union station is to be another ornament. The mere plans for it have already made her proud again, and boastful. With the new railroad tracks for freight and passenger terminals she plans to stitch together an up-to-date industrial dress, to become again in fact the Queen City of the West. Other U. S. cities have their soubriquets -descriptive, fanciful, hopeful. Some of them...