Word: boastfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sparing of Negro Norris last week kept intact the boast of Lawyer Leibowitz that no client of his had ever been executed. Two days later in Manhattan, one Salvatore Gati, 28, was sentenced to die the week of August 15 for murdering a policeman. His lawyer, Samuel Leibowitz, was en route to Europe...
...white folks, when they were sitting on the porch, complained that Negroes were lazy. He heard of a white man who had killed 14 Negroes and never been arrested, met one white man who bragged of his cruelty towards them. He also decided that there was justice in the boast of Tupelo, Miss.: "the only place in the South where we have the same beautiful moons we had before...
...toast of Vienna, And most of Vienna Can boast It's been host To the toast of Vienna...
Harvard has refused to adopt any of the fashions now current at some law schools. Yale takes great pride in disavowing the Harvard method of studying the historical and organic development of legal concepts rather than their "practical" value in modern law offices and courts. Boast is also made by Yale of the value of small classes in which there is close association between teacher and student. But, no matter how attractive on paper, the ultimate value of any scheme must be considered in the light of the ability and personality of the faculty which is to administer...
Such reporting by Better Times disturbs the parent Times much as a squeaking Leftist mouse would disturb a capitalist elephant. Most galling is Better Times's latest boast: "A distinct improvement in the New York Times handling of news from Rebel Spain was noticed by readers after the exposure of William Carney as Franco's press agent* in the last issue of Better Times. . . . Mr. [Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is quoted as saying of the Spanish War, I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides either with Loyalist or Rebel...