Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British came like one banker coming to meet another. There was very little question of capacity to pay. The British were too proud to admit that they might be unable to pay any debt they had contracted. The negotiations were chiefly a matter of arranging suitable terms. The Belgians came, poof and little, but proud. They were faced by a creditor who acknowledged that there were moral reasons for mitigating the debt. Arrangements were worked out on this basis. The French came exclaiming "We are poor! Oh, so poor, hélas!" and were intent on driving a bargain...
...Proud Heart. Rudolph Schildkraut, immensely gifted actor from the Continent, makes in this picture his first conspicuous appearance in the films. Universal has supplied for him a melodrama of the Bowery in which his two sons select the widely varying careers of law and prizefighting. It is a pretty good play made extraordinarily effective by the acting of the star...
...readily, appreciate that it may have been somewhat as a politeness that the Dean mentioned his preference for preaching at Harvard. The fact remains that Appleton Chapel is crowded, and is crowded voluntarily, and that Professor Perry appears to be sensibly proud of the fact that the men are there because they want to be." What an excellent day it will be when someone can say of Yale undergraduates that they go to Chapel to worship; that they are there because they want to be. Yale Daily News...
...graduate is one who is proud of his alma mater. An alumnus is one who is ashamed of her when she begins to lose football games. An alumnus writes more checks than a graduate, and is in every way the sterner...
...graduate is one who is proud of his alma mater. An alumnus is one who is ashamed of her when she begins to lose football games...