Word: bragging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers are proud of almost everything but their schools. They know that most of these are nothing to brag about: often dingy and dilapidated, the teachers underpaid and overworked, the classrooms overcrowded and dirty. New Yorkers have suspected that the city's worst schools are in the costive squalor of Harlem. But just how bad Harlem's schools are, few New Yorkers knew until last week...
...great peacetime battle of production, Henry Kaiser got back some of the luster of his wartime fame. His Willow Run plant turned out 145,000 cars and he was able to brag in full-page ads that he was now "the world's fourth largest producer of automobiles." It was true in the sense that only General Motors, Ford and Chrysler topped Kaiser-Frazer. Actually, production of seven of the Big Three's individual divisions topped K-F's figure...
...Capri. At Capri, he found the kind of prewar bargain which expatriates used to brag about. His hotel suite (large bedroom, bathroom, private balcony) looked out over pink stucco villas toward the island of Ischia. The room and meals cost 1,400 lire ($1.75 black market) a day. A day was like this: breakfast (coffee and hot milk, fresh bread, butter, jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta...
Columnist Herb Caen knew the usual trade practice: brag about your right guesses, if any, and maybe nobody will notice the others. One day last week he devoted his entire daily space in the San Francisco Chronicle to a recital of his April errors. Sample error: that fine little crack about the canned peas served at the national frozen-food convention banquet had been run without checking; and it just wasn't so. Caen promised to continue "Writing the Wrongs" once a month. "In the course of hacking together 20 or 25 items a day," he explained...
...Texans by & large are for it because 1) it has given them something new to brag about and 2) it will make them richer. They do not mind that more than 90% of the new investments have so far been made by outsiders. But Texans would not be Texans if they let that situaation alone. With their profits from oil and cattle, many of the state's well-heeled citizens are now turning into newfangled industrialists...