Word: preening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others in the cast of 30 include Peter D. Dibble '48 as Dr. Bradley, Virginia Donaldson as Nurse Preen, John Mannick '48 and Margaret Hughes as Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, in whose home the action takes place, and Barbara Nathan '48 as Aunt Harriett...
...crisis simmered down, Figueres was more solid than ever in the presidential chair. Somoza had his Legion foes at least temporarily disarmed. The O.A.S. could preen itself on a rapid job of calming intervention. Only Calderon Guardia had to face the fact of failure...
...approximation of Italian pronunciation, but many a U.S. soldier will shy like a startled colt at learning that to ask "When does the movie start?" he must say: "ah KAY Ora ko-MEEN-cha eel FEELM?" Or that the homely, familiar phrase "main street" turns out to be "STRAda preen-chee...
...House of Morgan has been to U.S. finance, the New York Times is to U.S. journalism. Rich in reputation, ripe in years, the Times is respected because it is thorough, dignified and decent. No one reads it for the lively approach. The Times has sometimes almost seemed to preen itself on its dowagerlike lack of humor, its presentation of all news in the same flat tone of voice...
...shift from the hunter's to the farmer's economy, the story relaxes towards more ordinary folk-stuff. But Conrad Richter can teach most U. S. folk-writers a trick or two in the right use of archaic language, and his pioneers, unlike most in fiction, never preen themselves before posterity...