Waiting for his fried mozzarella sticks, he proudly writes the letter A over and over on a piece of paper.

As columnist India Knight proudly wrote, "There's nothing wrong with liking beautiful things in beautiful colors."

Mr. Yeomans wrote proudly about giving his daughter, Zelda, 1, steak at 8 months.

I had worked steadily since 1963, when I proudly wrote my adolescent signature on the bottom line of a Social Security card.

They gloried in their role as women, and wrote proudly on the census blank: "Occupation: housewife."

"By the time this book comes out," she writes proudly, "I won't have had a Botox shot or a collagen shot for a year."

Earlier scholars, for instance, wrote proudly of the advantages of government borrowing to pull an economy out of recession.

Gone, mostly, are the reports of career milestones that they proudly wrote about in the first decade or so after graduation.

Luther wrote proudly, "In college she was a good student and stood well in her class.

Longfellow proudly wrote to a friend, "I live in a great house which looks like an Italian villa: have two large rooms opening into each other.