Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once there were steamboats on the Mississippi. Writers, thinking about those boats, fancy a certain gallantry, lost now, in the passengers who used them; the names of the boats, too, were beautiful and proud-The Anna Linington, Belle Zane, Magnolia, The Doubloon, The Fashion, The Great Republic. And it is true that people on shore could hear music blown over dark waters from the frail and lighted decks; niggers were fiddling there, gamblers in tall hats were playing faro, planters and belles and bankers swept down the river; they are gone. ' But who shall say that another age, because...
...Selfridge has grown proud of his store. It has become his life's accomplishment. So, with the intention of perpetuating it as the climax of his achievements, he last week wrote a letter to his customers : "I want to know that, whatever happens, the business which I have founded and into which I have put so much of myself will go on. Naturally, I should like Selfridge's to remain in the family, but I do not want to feel that if one of my descendants is weak and incapable of administration, this great firm will go down...
...fraternity houses; who have envied the head cheerleader, preened their slang, toddled all night, slaved for watch charms; and the girls they haye petted on sorority porches, girls with giddy shingles and cooing "lines"; girls with "dates" and pledge pins, innocent thirsts, crushes on young instructors, favorite love lyrics, proud independence and timid curiosity about Freud-these and their guardians, too, professors of both sexes, young and old, comfortably pedantic or secretly frustrate, testily brainy or docile and indulgent-even prexies, "the old boy with the gold-headed cane and administrative complex"-all these will suddenly find themselves exposed...
...with a proud finger that the Administration pointed to a Senate which adopted† a resolution for U. S. entrance into the World Court. Reservations were attached. Nevertheless, all good nations were expected to be pleased at having the U. S. in the World Court under any conditions. Seven months passed. Liberia, Cuba, Greece, Uruguay opened their arms, welcomed the U. S. into the brotherhood. Other nations remained cool, indifferent. Meanwhile, at home, Senators began to find that their constituents were not pleased with the votes they had cast for the World Court. In April, Senator William B. McKinley...
...father's chubby face; he serves with insurgent distinction, a mere child (age 30) among Senators. Son Philip, 29, is District Attorney in his home county. He has his father's shock of hair; he is a fiery orator. Last month he became the proud father of Robert Marion LaFollette III. Daughter Fola, once a suffragette, then a talented actress who played ingenue parts in Manhattan, is now the wife of Playwright George Middleton. Daughter Mary, the youngest, studies...