And yet even as the catastrophes pile up, Chicago never ceases to boast about itself.
Never one to boast about her own hard earned success, she was a modest woman who loved making others happy.
Never one to boast about his own hard earned success, he was a modest man who loved making others laugh.
Verdi was able to compose his revolutionary masterpiece in his 80th year because he constantly challenged his own notions, considered criticism judiciously and was never content to boast of past accomplishments.
He was never one to boast about his exploits – his squadron comrade Chuck Yeager became more famous, particularly after becoming the first pilot to break the sound barrier – but Overstreet claimed to have screamed under the iron lattice base arch of the Eiffel Tower in the wake of a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane a few weeks before D-Day.
Never one to boast, Sun titles its network computing model simply: "N1".
The only major figure missing from the news conference was the Nets' owner, Mikhail D. Prokhorov, who has never been afraid to boast about his team to reporters.
But the public school had never been able to boast a Nobel in chemistry until today, when Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz, class of '59 and a professor at Duke University's medical center, was one of two American scientists awarded the prize for their work figuring out how the human body's cells respond to external signals — for example, speeding the heart when danger approaches.
Hull is the largest city in England never to have boasted a top-flight football team, and uncertainty over the future is holding back ambitious plans by the local authority, among the richest in the country thanks to the multi-million pound windfall from the privatisation of Kingston Communications.
Remember how people used to boast, "I never watch TV," as if that made them smarter?
