Television roles, particularly in the BBC's Sunday early-evening classic serials and including rustics, status-proud servants and bourgeois ladies, further displayed her ability to be charmingly eccentric one minute, and glaringly intimidating the next.
Until quite recently, Standard's website championed the benefits of its mutual status, sporting proud proclamations that it was an organisation owned and run for the benefit of its members - in other words, the policyholders.
Oluwale came to Britain from Lagos in 1949 with the proud status of British citizen.
Hampton likes to mention the status of his proud black family as frequently as possible, dropping names like Colin Powell and Thurgood Marshall.
It also looks disconcertingly large, underscoring its status as a proud object to be admired, not shamefully hidden away.
In the ramshackle apartment blocks and sooty concrete homes that line the dusty roads of urban India, there is a new status symbol on proud display.
Then, who could deny "country" status to a proud land with the same population as Scotland, nearly twice that of Wales and 10 times that of Cornwall?
But the implications could be big for Coral Gables, whose proud status in South Florida as the "City Beautiful" hinges on the strictly regulated look of its neighborhoods.
"In the ramshackle apartment blocks and sooty concrete homes that line the dusty roads of urban India, there is a new status symbol on proud display," Elisabeth Rosenthal and Andrew W. Lehren wrote in The New York Times.
"Whether anyone accepts our proud status as a nuclear power, we will hold fast to it until the denuclearization of the entire Korean Peninsula is realized and the nuclear threats from the outside is completely terminated," the North Korean spokesman said.
Voters are turning to the opposition out of disgust with what they see as the unresponsive Liberal Democrats and their bungled handling of Japan's economy — which has led to nearly 20 years of stagnation and the loss of Japan's once proud status as an economic superpower.
