Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great man. Contemporary chronicles show that he was much sought after and that once when he went to the Tower of London (even in those days the Forecasts had entree every-where) on a matter of business, he died very suddenly. We have all been very proud of the Baron...
...tooth-ache-inspired nightmare, he realizes he is not as he thought he was: The city has put its stamp upon him. Roused, he asserts his individuality--to such an extent that he loses his position. So the play closes on him, an emancipated and jobless being, proud in his new-found identity and in the idea that he is unique and separate from all other people...
...Carnegie Hall has stood on its Manhattan corner red and warm and shabby, a little ashamed, it seemed, to be caught staying in town during the summer. Last week it raised its head to oldtime haughtiness, threw open its doors, spilled its lights onto Fifty-seventh street, stood proud again, important, among the young upstarts that tower head and shoulders above it. It was the occasion of the first Philharmonic concert, the 2086th in the history of the Philharmonic Society, the 85th season...
Juarez and Maximilian. History mentions one Maximilian, a Habsburg, appointed Emperor of Mexico by Napoleon Bonaparte; records a successful revolution led by Juarez, the untimely defection of Napoleon's troops, execution of Maximilian. More colorful chronicles relate that Maximilian's proud empress, failing to obtain aid from royal kin in Europe, became insane, another victim of the "curse of the Habsburgs," which has bloodied every generation of that ill-starred line with murder and violence...
...proud free spirits never, never...