Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Austen Chamberlain, the only Knight of the Garter to win the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926) and the only K. G. who is not a peer, sat with the crimson-&-blue-robed Knights who boast themselves "the oldest order of knighthood in the world...
...because he was good at cyphers and puzzles, he was sent to St. Petersburg under Sir George Buchanan as Secretary to the Ambassador, a post created for him to avoid his taking a Foreign Office examination. It is his boast that he was the last man officially presented to the Tsar at court...
Some time later the manager of the hotel found the pajama-clad, tuberculosis-ravaged, bullet-torn figure of Jack ("Legs") Diamond collapsed near the elevator, where he had dragged himself with the aid of a "coupla shots o' whiskey." Diamond was about the best Manhattan could boast in the way of a big-time gangster. They rushed him in a dying state to the Polyclinic Hospital in a private ambulance under the care of his private physician. When the police learned of the affair, half the detectives in the city jumped into the case...
...Work's decision and policy. He wanted the U. S. to hold its land, he insisted that the oil companies' claims were "pure paper." He quarreled with oil lawyers and when last summer he was transferred to Washington, he suspected the oil companies of having made good their boast that they would have him ousted...
...Feng and Chang are Northerners. North and South China are agelong foes. But last week Southerner Chiang Kaishek, President at Nanking, could at least boast that he had broken and hurled back if not destroyed the armies of Yen and Feng which last spring seemed bent on his extermination. Next spring will be another spring...