Word: bragging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present defenses are nothing to brag about. This condition does not worry Army people on the spot as much as might be expected. They know that the vulnerable Canal and the narrow Isthmus of Panama have inherent defense limitations which no amount of badly needed antiaircraft equipment or planes can wholly overcome. The only sure defense of the Canal is at a distance: by ship, by plane, by economic, political and diplomatic alliance with the countries of nearby Latin America and by occupation or neutralization of the bases from which an enemy might attack. The U.S. now lacks those outward...
Best-educated and most versatile branch of the Army is the Corps of Engineers. Officered by scholastic top-rankers from West Point and by graduates of such crack schools as M.I.T., Purdue and Caltech, the Engineers like to brag that they can do anything. In peacetime they build dams and -levees for power and flood control, think nothing of odd jobs like filling top-flight posts in WPA, the Civil Aeronautics Administration. In wartime they do a thousand jobs behind the lines, pave the way for infantry and tanks up front, often use shooting irons as well as shovels. Rednecked...
...times like these it is immature-and incidentally untrue-for anybody to brag that an unprepared America, singlehanded, and with one hand tied behind its back, can hold off the whole world...
...White House musicales," Mrs. Roosevelt is partial to Americans, likes programs that interlard well-known artists with entertainers like Whistler Robert MacGimsey, Character Sketcher Mollie A. Best, Singing Satirist Vandy Cape. Encores are given only if Mrs. Roosevelt signals. Artists are asked not to brag much in the press about their White House dates...
Crosley hired white-haired, bespectacled "CannonBall" Baker to make a transcontinental run in its new diminutive Covered Wagon (123½ inches overall). His report: "2,454 miles at a cost of $9.14 makes automobile history." Prices: $299 to $450. Company brag: "50 miles on a gallon-EASY...