Word: pridefully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bulbulian takes pride in matching flesh tints, in decorating his noses with tiny pores and wrinkles. Both noses and ears are glued on with a liquid adhesive made of mastic gum dissolved in chloroform or benzene. Like false teeth, false noses and ears must be doffed at night...
...Italian pride, rejuvenator, Renovator and high-speeder...
...DISCOVERY OF MAN-Stanley Casson-Harper ($3). In this quietly excellent history of anthropology and archeology, Stanley Casson also traces the blinding strength of pride & prejudice, the slow development of man's ability to look at himself and his past detachedly...
...profound and narrow piety troubled her; the ignorance, poverty and knavery of his peasants disgusted her. Because she was a straight-and nai've-American, her book clearly mirrors all that. But because she is intelligent and gentle, it also mirrors individuality, fertility and peace; the pride of a people long oppressed and newly independent; the care of one class for another; the possibilities, under a not despotic government, for life's improvement...
Rumor-Mongers Silenced. While Scotland Yard worked to remove a tangible menace from the British Isles. Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper inveighed against the more insidious danger of "lethargy, defeatism and rumor." Declaring that the impending dangers are being faced "in confidence, indeed in pride," he opened a campaign against rumormongering. It had been verified that "They say . . ." stories had caused the evacuation of several French villages and had thrown thousands of peasants into panic, and even as Duff Cooper spoke, a creepy story circulated in London about a nun in a railway carriage who stooped to pick...