Word: purseproud
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...reply, Alabama's Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, erupted in the Senate with characteristically bad taste: "Alabama's Roman Catholic priest wrote this speech and this Romanized, purseproud, millionaire Governor of Massachusetts spoke it! The answer, in my opinion, is found in the fact that Governor Fuller's wife is a Roman Catholic...
...stadium, some 25,000 merry rooters climbed up an elevation known as Tightwad Hill, which overlooks the field, and from which every play can be seen as clearly as if you were sitting on a slab of cement you had paid three dollars for. So the two camps-the purseproud and the gay-waved flags at each other, while down on the green parchesi-board the two teams wavered up and down until Washington...
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