Word: bragging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...369th was brigaded with the French who called its black men les enfants perdus (the lost children) because of their separation from the rest of the A. E. F. The regiment lost 1,100 men killed and wounded, won 172 individual French and American decorations, was able to brag that it had never lost a foot of ground to the enemy or surrendered a prisoner to him. By Armistice, it had spent more time in action (191 days) than any other U. S. outfit, and when it marched up Fifth Avenue in February 1919, the green-and-red ribbon...
Next day United Air Lines came out in metropolitan newspapers with an advertisement air lines had never dared to use before: a specific, unequivocal brag for safety. Thus was celebrated the end of the first year in the history of any form of U. S. transport which had passed without a single fatality to passenger or crew...
Take the description of Crockett when he "grated thunder with his teeth," or the woman who used to "brag that she war a streak of litenin set up edgeways and buttered with quicksilver," or the cold morning when "the airth had actually friz fast in her axis, and couldn't turn around; the sun had got jammed between two cakes of ice under the wheels, an' thar he had been shinin and working to get loose, till he friz fast in his cold sweat." This work is no mere potboiler...
...brag on us a little bit?" cried Texas' Hatton Sumners. What he bragged about was that U. S. lynchings dropped from 231 in 1892 to 130 in 1901, to 54 in 1916, to 20 in 1935, to six in 1938, last year to three* (one in Mississippi, two in Florida, none for rape). These descending figures seemed to point the moral that if Congress lets right-thinking Southern whites alone, they can work their dark problem down to zero...
...tremendous importance of controlling yourself at your age and wait until you are old enough to choose a good girl for a wife? You have no right to play with girls who know no better than you. You can be a butterfly sucking every attractive flower. You can even brag to your friends about the conquests you have made. You are not a hero. You have taken advantage of the weakness of womanhood to satisfy your baser nature. There is nothing heroic about that...