Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Proud Pedestrian...
...distressing to a proud pedestrian to find TIME on p. 2, Oct. 9 issue, including Daniel Morgan in its list of "Brainy Cavalrymen...
...Germans refused point-blank to allow the garrison to evacuate non-combatants from the city. Herr Hitler's variorum: "Sheer sympathy for women and children caused me to make an offer to those in command of Warsaw at least to let civilian inhabitants leave the city. . . . The proud Polish commander of the city did not even condescend to reply...
...Republic of Poland, the quarrel of Colonel Beck and Marshal Smigly-Rydz on a railway platform in Rumania might well have opened its final scene. Three weeks before, they had been the responsible rulers of one of Europe's major powers- its sixth in population and area. Proud men, independent and successful, they had reason to be proud. Philosophical Smigly-Rydz, shy and softspoken, had built Poland's Army until it included 1,500,000 trained reserves; deft Josef Beck, untroubled by accusations of lack of scruples, had maneuvered Poland successfully for years despite her precarious international position...
...Butler's ancestry abounded in preachers, educators, merchants. Dr. Butler's British-born father went into the jute business, in Paterson, N. J. Proud of his British blood, Dr. Butler exclaims: "It has never been . . . possible for me . . . to be on ... British soil without a feeling of exaltation." When Dr. Butler was a few days old, his aunt carried him up to the cupola of his house with an American flag, a $10 gold piece and a Bible; there dedicated his life to patriotism, wealth and piety...