Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover has said: "These Acadians are a wonderful people and they love this Evangeline country of theirs with all their heart and soul. Very few speak English and they are as proud as the forefathers who settled the Sugar Bowl 200 years ago. We are finding it the toughest sort of a job to convince them that when they go to a concentration camp they do not become objects of charity. They stay behind until the flood is in sight and even then they hesitate to take to the high places...
...runs under a score far beyond the wildest aspirations of mere mortal batters and base runners. After the thunderburst of journalistic prowess had finally spent itself, after the wreckage had been cleared away enough for the umpires to discover the battered remains of what had once been lampy's proud diamond hope it was discoved that the CRIMSON had amassed 23 runs, while the lampoon total stood right where it has been for the last 50 years--at two runs...
...Climbers (Irene Rich). A proud Duchess at the Spanish Court in Inquisitorial times, displeases the King and is shipped off to Porto Rico. There she tries to live up to her subtitled name of "she-devil" by delicately flogging her peons, riding like Tom Mix and crossing swords with an evil-visaged bandit. Despite Dukes, Duchesses, bandits and a lost daughter, there is scant hair-raising...
...virtue of a creative mind, tuned to analysis, has been transformed into something very remote from barren bookishness. The favor it is finding in non-academic circles is indicative of its appeal to those who are not intrinsically interested in its subject matter. Harvard University may well be proud of a man who has made this distinctive contribution to modern criticism...
...Barre, Pa., one Joseph Nowanick, coal miner, angled for fish in Brohead Creek, fished up a diamond-ring. He learned it had been lost by a Mrs. Joseph Brown of Manhattan and was worth $1,700. Honest, Miner Nowanick sent the ring home. Grateful, Mrs. Brown offered a reward. Proud, Miner Nowanick refused. Insistent, Mrs. Brown invited him to Manhattan to spend Memorial Day. Sociable, Miner Nowanick accepted...