Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ohio can't be proud of the "gang," of course, but it's going pretty strong for a West Virginian [Newsstand Buyer Sands, TIME, Feb. 21] to get uppitty. What's West Virginia but Ohio's coal bin? Just a dirty, disheveled stretch of mine dumps and scraggly mountains, filled with a bunch of ignorants that only know enough to swing picks and drink moonshine. That's one reason you can't spend anything but Sunday on Sunday in West Virginia. Everybody's drunk or sleeping it off down there on Sunday. . . . What President did West Virginia ever produce...
...Budapest, Hungary, will be sent the Princeton man, Joshua Butler Wright, to succeed Theodore Brentano as U. S. Minister. Ignorant Hungarian newspapers expressed proud surprise that the U. S. Secretary of State had been made Minister to their country. Blithely unconscious of Mr. Kellogg's Secretaryship, they attached all manner of significance to the appointment of Mr. Wright, who happens to be merely Mr. Kellogg's suave and able assistant. Mr. Wright, a onetime rancher from Wyoming, has been in the diplomatic service and the Department of State since...
Once a distracted Frankfort woman came moaning to the aged Frau Rothschild, sobbed: "They say that war is breaking out. They will take my only son." A smile compassionate yet proud twitched the lips of Frau Rothschild: "Ach! Do not be afraid. . . . There will be no war. . . . My sons will not provide the money for it this time. ..." She died at 94 in the house with the green shield, in Jew Street. "Here," she used to say, "I have seen my sons grow rich and powerful, and I will leave them their prosperity, for they would certainly lose...
Home went this, Swedish, chorus dame. In lovesick hopeless desperation. To save her brother's youthful name She would not give an explanation. The Ralstons find they've done her wrong, and their proud dignity unbending, Must I prolong this silly song? There is, do tell, a happy ending...
Last week the Westminster Kennel Club held its 51st annual show in Madison Square Garden. Two thousand aristocrats of dogdom gathered in friendly competition. Days passed, various breeds were judged, proud owners received awards. On Saturday afternoon all prizes save one had been dispensed. The best animal, regardless of class or breed, was still to be selected...