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Word: pridefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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There was no lack of lifted voices and sounding trumpets on this heroic dispute. The gallant heir of the traditions of the Lone Star State, Senator Tom Connally, plumping for Foreign Relations, denied vehemently and at length that his choice was motivated by pride, of which nobody accused him, made it clear at the conclusion of his talk that nobody could accuse him of wanting to aid Finland either. Senator George of Georgia talked just as long in the same cause, proclaiming his inability to tell the difference between sending money to Finland and sending a battleship. Vainly Administration Leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sounding Trumpets | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...wrote a film version of Eve Curie's life story of her mother. Garbo was to have played it, but the story was shelved. Just completed, in collaboration with Jane Murfin, is an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time and Craving | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Other utilitymen did not point to it with pride. Utility-baiters called it an octopus. Roly-poly Utilitycoon Howard Colwell Hopson and his partner, John I. Mange, called it Associated Gas & Electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Lost Balance | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...bells are a true Russian Zvon, or carillon, and once were the pride and joy of the Dansilovsky, or Danailov Monastery, in Moscow, and they were given to the University by Charles R. Crane, former United States Minister to China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music Professor Rings Lowell House Bells Since Imported Russian Ringer Drank Ink in Stillman | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...students who pride themselves on their waltzing ability will get their chance Monday night when the Boston Birthday Ball Committee, sponsors a College Waltzing Contest at the annual President's Birthday Party, held for the benefit of infantile paralysis victims...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOBIN SPONSORS CONTEST TO FIND BEST COLLEGE WALTZER | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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