Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marquand bestseller about upper-class decline & fall. The Hales are co-owners with Marquand of Curzon Mill, where the family has lived for generations, and which they say is the scene of the book. John has been trying to buy them out, and the money-poor, land-proud Hales took the case to court rather than move off their home place ("We want it because it has been a part of us for so long. And when you get old you want to go back to the beginning . . . The family . . . has always gone back there to die-and be buried...
...dismay and disbelief of civic-proud Los Angelenos, the Los Angeles Times reported that hordes of rats swarmed nightly over palm-fringed Pershing Square in the midst of downtown Los Angeles. The rats, said the Times, climbed down out of the trees to feed on popcorn and nuts forgotten by the pigeons in the daytime, drank from the fountain, scampered over discarded newspapers...
...West Point, the brass-buttoned chests had not been so puffed up and proud since the great Davis & Blanchard graduated. Army's football team, unbeaten in its first four games, was rated among the "big four" of the nation (the others: North Carolina, Notre Dame and Michigan). What's more, it was waist deep in sophomores who are good now and almost certain to get much better...
...Love, but Justice. The young Washington that Freeman has exhumed will give many a superpatriot the twitches. Freeman knows that his portrait of a proud and selfseeking Virginian has ruthlessly kicked Washington, the Eagle Scout who could not tell a lie, off his pedestal for keeps. Most men of Washington's rank, writes Freeman, "considered him ambitious and not particularly likable or conspicuously able . . ." Washington's favorite disciplinarian was the cat-o'-nine-tails: 25 lashes for profanity, 100 for drunkenness. His letters to superiors were often fawning, too prone to dwell on his own belief that...
Every man who saw action played his heart out. "They left everything they had on the field," said Valpey after the game. "It was their best game this year and I'm proud of them...