Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most valuable private collection in Europe." Last week, with nothing to conceal for the first time in at least a generation, Prince Franz von und zu Liechtenstein. Due de Troppeau, Prince et Due de Jägerndorf, celebrated in his castle by conferring upon his twice-wedded wife the proud title "Countess of Vaduz...
...writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will get us nowhere. . . . It would be a proud day for me if I could feel in myself something of the beauty and dignity of the automobile in which I rode to this speaking...
...Bank of France's rate at 3�%, the zeal of that institution to acquire and hold gold bullion was regarded in London as distinctly ominous. Was the explanation that France ?on the eve of The Hague Reparations Conference?was amassing a spectacular gold reserve, swelling her credit to proud, unwonted dimensions, and generally preparing to overawe the Conference with a display of her fiscal might...
Linz on the Danube is large, modern, comparatively prosperous. There are large iron works and ship yards for building river boats. Perched dramatically on a pine-clad rock just outside of Linz is feudal Schloss Waxenberg, subject of Linz's most popular post cards, hereditary fief of proud Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Linz's industrial population is heartily Socialist. Prince Ernst, lord of Schloss Waxenberg, is loudly, violently Royalist. Unlike most Austrian princes he is still rich. Despite the cordial hatred of Linz factory workers, he is treated with the greatest deference and respect...
...said to be valued at $400. When the speeches were over they filed up to the platform, spoke their names into a microphone, shook hands with all of the Committee except Col. Lindbergh who stood back and nodded politely. When Candidate Reid went up there was loud applause from proud Jerseyans...