Word: prides
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...quote Variety) "mitt-reading." Its first issue carried an "exclusive" spirit message from the late Conan Doyle -"scooping the Cosmopolitan by a full month." Captain Billy is frankly worshipful toward his Whiz Bang. Wherever he travels he sends back great sheaves of ribald jokes and also, with intense pride, hist monthly editorial: "Drippings from the Fawcett." In elaborate metaphor he voices his love for the common people, liquor and the "pleasures of living"; his hate for Prohibition, reformers, censors, etc. etc. He enjoys referring to himself as "this bristle-whiskered old sodbuster." to his wife as "the henna-haired heckler...
Lately Reporter Lavine has been night man attached to police headquarters for the American. He wrote The Third Degree last May, now points with pride to its indication of the "vice-rackets" and subornation of magistrates currently exposed in New York City. Since the book was published, he has been consulted by President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission, has given lectures before several civic bodies on the prevalence and practice of third-degree methods by the police of U. S. cities...
...Left his desk to stand, shoulders thrown back, with smiling lips, while John Philip Sousa led the Marine band through the strains of his latest (140th) military march, "The George Washington Bicentennial," a transcript of which the aging bandleader presented with pride to his President...
Devoted Belgians, grateful again to their able king, recalled with pride that their royal family is the only one in Europe whose members are careless of photographers. King Albert's straddle and the remarkable pictures of Queen Eliza beth being let down backward from inspecting an Egyptian stone inscription last winter are two examples. Recently their daughter, Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy, raised one royal leg high over the side of an Italian speedster, in order to climb out. heedless of the fact that lenses were looking...
...energetically entered the oil industry through the new Cosden Oil Co. in which he had been given a half interest. In five states he obtained leases, built an organization. While friends gladly reported that Mr. Cosden had promised to "lay off the market," he nevertheless must have watched with pride the swing in his stock which carried it to $135 last year. At this time it was estimated that his second fortune had risen to some $15,000,000, and there were stories that he was prepared to buy control of Mid-Continent Petroleum...