Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rose Count Apponyi, that lean Hungarian statesman, a grand seigneur of legend, whose pointed white beard, flaring Roman nostrils, and face of parchment, give him, when he is solemn, the air of an exiled patriarch, and, when he laughs, that of a goat. He swept the conclave with proud and sombre eyes. Twisting a little paper in his hand he began to speak...
Members of the First Baptist Church, especially the men, began to be proud of him. He knew a lot. His sermons were not merely repetitions of abstract nouns and pious adjectives. When he preached, he set his verbs to work, pulling facts, incidents, aphorisms, from Classical History, Renaissance, Art, Modern Business...
Hereafter the name of Lansdowne will be the rythm for a proud measure in the epic of the skies...
...Significance. And so-including a description of the ceremony of the accolade, tales of touring the Continent, and many more intimate memories of princes, presidents and pre-Raphaelites-to the farewell performance of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (Hamlet at Harvard in 1916). Cables Herbert Tree: "All our stage is proud of you." After the passing* of one of the great actor-managers in the lofty line of Garrick, Siddons and Macready, his book is a snapshot album copiously illustrating the rich life of his day and a memorial for ex-audiences from Berlin to Vancouver...
Praise. Praise the child when he eats well. Be proud of him and let him know it. Do not emphasize his failures...