Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clutch of circumstance, though verified by all human experience, a bitter taunt comes to mind and seems justified. It frets my soul to think that the Yanks, a nation far removed and by no means of the first rank, who with invincible logic found themselves in 1914-1918 too proud to fight, should with homely eloquence in 1927 find themselves too proud to learn to read and write...
...institution. If that be true, perhaps Conductor Frank V. Hendrix will seem even more of a personage than Conductor Kennedy, when he officiates at the Chicago end of the anniversary run with his colleagues, Conductor Frank A. Jefferey and John S. Lund.* Gruff as a Southern colonel and as proud of tradition, Conductor Hendrix lacks but a few days of Conductor Kennedy's seniority. Both joined the road in 1873 when Commodore Vanderbilt was its president. Both retire before another Century anniversary rolls around...
...plain man, neither snobbish nor proud, and content to be so. As such I thank you for publishing the letter [TIME, May 23] in which Mr. Herbert Milton Maxwell so cogently points out that since the President of Mexico has a private train costing ?375,000 our own President should not go about as might a "drummer" or "traveling salesman...
Should onetime Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois be inclined to grasp at straw votes, he might be pleased and proud at the indications of the first such political weather-vane reported in the 1927-28 campaign...
...Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh continued her duties as chemistry teacher, at the Cass Technical High School in Detroit, while her son was somewhere in the atmosphere between New York and Paris. Said she: "I am proud to be the mother of such...