Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warden Smith and Deputy Meikrantz were proud of Prisoner Yun's lament.They themselves had inspired Yun to his effort, for they set great store by the lyric abilities of the Chinese. A few years back, a hatchetman inmate had composed an unforgettable Christmas carol entitled: I'd Rather Be in Pekin, Than in Here Peekin...
Last week Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler was proud as a pouter pigeon. Having proved strangely inept as a cop, he redeemed himself as a superb detective-story author. Serially, from day to day, he released his mystery thriller, The Bürgerbräu Plot...
Chapter 11: Threat. Proud of its solution though it was, the Reich was highly dissatisfied with the threatening role the supposedly neutral Netherlands had played in this horrid affair-allowing an alleged chauffeur to be captured and a Dutch Army officer shot dead while apparently assisting British spies...
...year she plans to take Saturday courses at the University of Iowa. Her teaching salary now is $72.50 a month (she began at $40). Her restaurant job helps tide her over the summer vacation (when she gets no salary) and pay for such extras as the dentist. She is proud of her improvements to the school. When she arrived, it had a big black stove in the centre. She got rid of that, made the room more habitable. Now it has white curtains with red ribbons at the windows, a new floor, a globe of the world hanging from...
...Irene Leonard. Irene, 7, stepped up and recited a story, entitled "Paddy's Pets," about a little girl whose pet dog and cat jumped out of her father's overcoat pockets in church. When her pupil was declared winner of the contest, Miss Campbell permitted herself a proud smile...