Word: pridefully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...nine miles. Three Mexican gunboats were on duty near by at the time. U. S. interference with a Mexican ship, in Mexican waters, in the presence of Mexican warships was a grave matter. The time had come for a showdown on how far sensitive Latin Americans would sacrifice their pride for the sake of security measures they had helped establish...
...platitude honors, only rival to B. C. the biographer is B. C. the aphorist. Last week, in one 400-word column on how to be successful, he dropped one dozen mottoes, including "Pride prejudices . . . Conceit begets coldness . . . Selfishness shrivels sympathy . . . Almightiness kills admiration. . . ." He also cited Kettering, Owen Young, Willkie, Lincoln to prove that "radiators of happiness . . . multiply contracts as well as contacts...
...mind still as active as ever, he continues to study literature and takes pride in keeping up with current events. He always took an active interest in politics and was a personal friend of Grover Cleveland and Woordrow Wilson...
...look at the reaction of government officials, the business world and the mighty press to the action of these underpaid workers. In a boastful reply to Martin Dies, who has accused the F.B.I. of laxity in hunting down "Reds" and "5th, Columnists," Attorney-General Robert Jackson points with pride to the F.B.I. investigation of the Vultee strike and calls the strike Communists inspired. Representative Dies plans to conduct his own little "investigation" of the strike this next week. The public is being treated to the disgusting spectacle of a tragi-comic feud between the F.B.I. and the laurel-laden Dies...
...character building and job training will not provide for America's four million unemployed young people "the sense of pride in fruitful work." Consequently the majority of the contributors to "American Youth" see the necessity for some form of voluntary work camp programe--possibly an enlarged C.C.C. with "a reputation as a man factory, not as a mere warden of sub marginal youth...