Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This June day of 1927 is, then, an epic moment in an epic history. President Lowell can well be proud of the Harvard he has brought to what the ancient Greeks would have called a state of "happiness." Harvard can well be proud of the leader under whose vigorous, yet quiet direction, she has attained such pleasant heights...
...with all possible emphasis to the letter appearing in your issue of June 13, and signed by Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse of London, His insinuation that "the Yanks, a nation far removed and by no means of the first rank. . . found themselves in 1914-1918 too proud to fight" is a foul and slanderous...
...only grandson was killed in action during the year 1917. He and very many other young men of our nation were not at any time "too proud to fight...
...inhabitants of Kenton, Ohio,* were so befuddled last week that they would not have been surprised to find rabbits in their beds or eggs in their shoes. For three days, their town was a hive of deft-fingered, beady-eyed men who stopped at nothing. But Kentonites were proud, for they were being entertained by 500 members of the International Brotherhood of Magicians-Harry Blackstone, Mysterious Smith, T. Nelson Downs (King of Koins), Rajah Raboid, the Hudspeths and many another. Important doings...
...young man in his twenties he made his appearance with a bulky novel of two volumes, quite an unmodern thing to do early in this century when everybody was proud of being in haste and having no time for long tales, only for the "short" story. But he made his public sit down and read what he had to say. "Buddenbrooks, Decline of a Family." Knopf, New York, was the title of the book. He covered the whole nineteenth century with the history of a merchant family in an old Hanseatic City, spoke "partly in a sombre, partly...