Word: pridefully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Pride & Prejudice (Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver. Melville Cooper, Edmund Gwenn; TIME, July...
...Exposition visitors went to the Palace. Of those, one in ten (7,152) voted their preferences. Most notable of this year's innovations were the collections of modern Mexico and Central and South American paintings, which, gleaned over months of patient travel, had filled the directors with pride and confidence. But of 16 sections in the exhibition, these two polled the fewest votes (56 between them). Most popular section: the U. S.-owned old masters...
...marriageable daughters. He breaks up an unsuitable affair between Elizabeth's sister and his friend Mr. Bingley, then with an air of misfortune announces that he is willing to make an unsuitable match himself. At which point, Austenites recall, Elizabeth gives him his comeuppance. Before Darcy's pride and Elizabeth's prejudice give way, some ob servers may find the going a little lacy...
...empire." He dislikes his task, but takes comfort in the thought of sailing, on the morrow, for Spain and the quiet life. Kidnapping, hurricane, shipwreck, a Crusoe sequence delay his return. When he finally sails, a more distinguished passenger is Columbus, in chains, with a ham actor's pride in his martyrdom; still hopeful, hot-eyed, still straining after the Golden City of Cambaluc...
...Niger hippopotamus ... lay down with his head flat on the deck, and ceased to think. His great red eyes looked through me at I know not what. The fawn, the antelopes, and the river-hogs swayed on their cloven, pointed hooves as they tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity. The panther...