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George Barker's novel is the story of a sick young dog who would rather sniff in his misery than get well. As such, it is a reekingly unpleasant book; when the author waxes lyrical and theological about his nasty little mess, it becomes a conceited one. Nevertheless, The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aboriginal Calamity | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

With television and radio commitments Russell's income is already well up in five figures, and there is a three-month picture-making stint in Hollywood coming up "I'll never be conceited," he says. "I've just got something to sell and my job is to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Horn-Rimmed Harvey | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Colored by years and events, the editors who worked with him today remember FDR variously as "a cocky, conceited chap with a great name but nothing much else," the best "mixer of claret punch for the semi-annual initiations of new editors," an "energetic, resourceful, and independent" person, and a...

Author: By Frank B. Qilbert, | Title: FDR Headed Crimson During College Years; Work on Paper Was Most Important Activity | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

"I didn't realize Harvard had such as inferiority complex," said a freshman, opposed by a sophomore from the same hall, whose experience had found Crimson men to be "conceited--on masse."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffedwellers Think Harvard Dates Are Best Available, Survey Shows | 4/18/1950 | See Source »

"An angakok doesn't consider sinful what a white preacher considers sinful, but knows only one kind of sin - that which harms the community . . . An angakok . . . believes in every spirit [but] the white men are exceedingly narrow-minded and conceited people, and that's the reason why they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Bears & Men | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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