Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With her black setter Lord for company & guard, a Swedish camera man and two chauffeurs to drive her baggage truck, she had already last week driven her car 7,300 miles in 42 traveling days-from Constantinople, through Syria, Armenia and Persia, to Moscow. Europeans were amazed; Germans were proud besides...
...Said the Times: "It is a comfort to New Yorkers to think of their Mayor dressed in a double-breasted grey coat and. . . trousers, as he reclines upon the sunny sands. . . assimilating the wisdom he has acquired on the 'Grand Tour.'. . . They are proud to realize that his motto has been to improve each shining hour, even if this has meant activities far into the night. ... To the itinerant Mr. Walker falls the task of noting, marking and inwardly digesting . . . information, and doing it within a brief respite after a tour of inspection of Venetian ballrooms lasting until...
...America 1926. Among the pseudonymphs who arrived on the first day of the pageant was Miss America 1926. She, Miss Norma Descynge Smallwood, was expected to lead the beauty parade after the custom for veteran victors. A demure and modest girl last summer, she had now become haughty and proud. She had been making approximately $1,200 weekly since her victory a year ago. Only for a like sum, she in- formed the judges, would she spend a week of her time leading the present crop. The judges demurred, selected Princess America I, an Indian girl called Alice Garry...
...greet him. They found him sad and thin, his face grooved with prison despair. He had been ill most of the latter months in jail; he had taught in the prison Sunday school; had edited Good Words, the prison newsmagazine; never, during his sentence, did Warren T. McCray, a proud man, allow his wife or any member of his family to visit him. When told of his parole, the one-time Governor had wept for a few minutes and then, in dim fashion, had begun to gather his possessions. Now he declared to reporters as he boarded a train...
Then from the town of Nogent-sur-Seine it was heralded that Mme. Chercuitte had assisted nature in the birth of 5,411 pink youngsters. "A record!" contended the proud inhabitants...