Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Nina Michaud came back to Chesterbridge?brimming with life, a celebrated sculptress, still single, with her grown son?she found them thus: John, the burntout editor of the Times, unbending before the new regime of upstart Jew manufacturers; Mildred, a proud, suffering, spent stranger in his house. John was able to make some amends to Nina. He abandoned his code to the extent of lying to get their Communist son out of jail. But neither Nina nor the boy really needed even that. They were self-sufficient. They loved him, thanked him and took their ways. John accepted...
...Other miscellaneous taxes passed in quick succession. The whole, together with the taxes passed before the last Briand Cabinet fell (TIME, March 15), totaled a tax increase of somewhat more than four billion francs. This was an accomplishment of which MM. Briand and Peret might well have been proud. Yet the Premier ominously remarked: "I am not at all satisfied...
...reason for the cameras. It seems that there is a custom in Cambridge when April with her showers sleety has allowed a short hiatus in the vernal equinox--and the custom is this, young and old tall and short, discreet and indefinite--all take each other's picture. Where proud the shaft of the monument on the common lifts its granite head, there I saw two girls with their boy friends taking each other's pictures with frank abandon. So mirror will be the richer soon by one enlarged, unretouched photograph of Mazie on a Monument--which rather irritates...
...Charles M. Schwab was a stage driver in his youth and is proud of it. Mr. Charles M. Ward is a nephew of Mr. Schwab. Last week Mr. Ward asked the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania, at Paris, whether he would like to drive a racing automobile at the opening, next May, of the Atlantic City Speedway, which has allegedly been financed by steel-magnate Schwab...
...know I have recommended TIME to so many of my friends, sent my old copies to those I thought were looking for such a paper. Now, I am not so proud of being one of your readers−and it shall be quite a while (taking for granted that such articles will cease) before I recommend it again...