Word: conceited
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...Jordan, tormented by news that her cook has dropped the aspic, learns that her husband has an incurably bad heart. Some of her guests never do arrive. The Ferncliffes, "those miserable cockneys," have their secretary telephone to say they have left town. Larry Renault, the actor, harassed by poverty, conceit and a futile love affair with Paula Jordan, has committed suicide in his hotel room...
...first, Reeves plans to diddle the Hartland heirs out of their shoe factory. Presently he changes his mind; it pleases him better to get himself appointed their guardian under a pseudonym, make them help him build up their plant. This adds to their self-respect and diminishes the conceit of Reeves's nephew. It does not do Reeves Shoe Co. any harm because the nephew falls in love with the Hartland girl (Bette Davis) and it looks as though the companies might merge about the time the two young people get married...
This gloomy conceit tickled Britishers so thoroughly that they have not yet tired of it. British and Australian cricket teams have this season been playing for the Ashes since Dec. 2. Last week the fourth test began at Brisbane. Australia was behind, two matches to one, but a more than respectable 340 in the first innings made the situation look more cheerful-until Hedley Verity of Yorkshire and Edward Paynter of Lancashire, with his neck wrapped in bandages to ward off a cold, pulled England out of the innings with 356. In Australia's second innings, Stanley McCabe made...
Mincing Jimmy Whistler with his colossal conceit,* his rouged cheeks, his monocle, was a master of composition, of repartee and publicity but he knew very little about the chemistry of his craft. Because he used poor colors and sometimes repainted his canvases a dozen times, many of the best Whistlers are physically disintegrating. Not so the "Mother," whose color is as fresh, as luminous as it ever...
North Carolina, "valley of humility between two peaks of conceit," was not the only Southern State where Prohibition was making a strange new political brew. The South Carolina delegation last week startled the Democratic Convention by voting for Repeal. In August, South Carolina will hold a Democratic primary for the Senate nomination at which the electorate will have its first real chance to vote Wet or Dry. Senator Ellison Durant Smith, a personal Dry stumping for renomination, stands shyly by the Chicago convention's plank. Ashton H. Williams of Florence is aggressively championing Repeal. Leon Harris of Anderson keeps...