Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verdicts in, it was hard to believe that everyone had been looking at the same opera (Verdi's Otello). The New York Times and Sun found it "exciting" and "superb." The Philadelphia Inquirer was dazzled by "the overwhelming power and grandeur of the music and the miracle of proud and panoplied art being brought in full glory into one's own home...
Edward Finnegan makes an impressive and pompous Agamemnon. Gregg Martin, as Achilles, is quite as conceited and despicably treacherous as intended. And John Peters plays a delightfully stupid and proud Ajax...
...August Fagerholm, Tanner's most ardent disciple, did not immediately invite the old fire-eater back into the government. Tanner declared that he would retire to his farm near Helsinki, "to write books and raise forests." Before he left Helsinki, he had one more political pronouncement. "I am proud of the Socialist Party's fight for democratic principles," the old man thundered. "The Finnish Communists must be placed where they belong. Right at the back of the stalls...
...York's Boxing Commissioner Eddie Eagan and try to get Eddie to lift his supension (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer two years ago). He was really lonesome fighting anywhere but in Madison Square Garden, which was "just like my own bedroom." He was pretty proud of one thing: that he didn't go on with his match with Apostoli and take a dive. "I could have picked up the change [about $18,000] and gone into the water," said Rocky righteously...
Almost every handyman-around-the-house knows "Plumb" hammers and hatchets. Philadelphia's venerable Fayette R. Plumb, Inc. has been making fine tools since the 1880's, and is proud-and jealous-of its trademark. Not so well known is Los Angeles' Plomb Tool Co. (named after Alphonse Plomb, one of three founders), a much younger firm (founded in 1907). When Plomb applied in 1926 to make its name a trademark, Plumb promptly squawked in court. The result was a deal in which Plomb agreed not to use its name on anything that resembled the famed Plumb...