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Word: proudly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Miss Mahoney completed her most exacting assignment: nine ensembles to be worn during the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth. They include: an ermine stole made of 250 Alaskan pelts; a chiffon dress in mauve, lime green, petal pink shades; an evening dress of Alenqon lace. Twittered proud Designer Mahoney: "Mrs. Roosevelt is usually very quick about deciding on her clothes, but last time she spent two hours here. She's wonderfully easy to work with, understands tailoring and has impeccable taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...choir, a 102-man symphony orchestra and a choir of brass instruments off stage. One of the most impressive of 20th-century symphonic works, Mahler's immense, unwieldy, hour-and-a-half-long symphony is seldom performed. When Leopold Stokowski played it in Philadelphia 23 years' ago, proud Philadelphians crowed as though they had hatched a world's series baseball team. But Cincinnatians just took it in their stride, put it on the same program with another hour-long choral epic, sat calmly through them both, then thundered their approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cincinnati's Festival | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...winner of a major award in the 110-foot Class and minor awards in the 70-and 54-foot Classes, we feel rather proud of being the only firm in the competition to have received more than one award. I have always thought Time unbiased, yet I find our name not even mentioned. Why not give credit where credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Dies Committee. By last week, the affair had stirred up not only Tampa and Florida but the whole South, for Mr. Sherman was quoted as saying that Baron von Spiegel had boasted there were plenty of other universities (presumably in his jurisdiction-eight Southern States) who were not too proud to take German gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Insult | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...mother: she is proud of her pointed nose, "mentions the word 'FAT' almost 8 times per day." What she likes best""'is to let father sit in a chair and not reading anything . . . and hear her talking without any moving or uttering a sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lin Gossips | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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