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Grand Inquisitor. James Boswell was a drunkard, a tomcat, a toady, a conceited ass and at times a consummate nuisance; but he produced almost as great a book as Gibbon's, and thanks to his inveterate good nature and high spirits, probably had more real friends. Some of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Age of Reason | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

By such stages many Britons have now come to think of the U.S. soldier as sloppy, conceited, insensitive, undiscriminating, noisy. Recently Stars and Stripes, the U.S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Poor Relations | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Hollywood thought Hope conceited when he first arrived, today merely finds him a little vain. He is well liked, easy to work with, hard to rile, so fast with gags he is almost fatiguing. He can never resist one, recently phoned a Hollywood friend all the way from London to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hope for Humanity | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

>Republican Congressman Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan, a labor-hating eccentric, who has pocketless coats so his hands will not get tangled up while he is orating. He once called President Roosevelt a "crazy, conceited megalomaniac"; he scoffed at the President's "absurd" assertion that there were U-boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Sloppy Citizenship | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

The child of troupers, Cohan was born in Providence July 4, 64 years ago, when Jerry and Nellie Cohan had $1 between them. At eight he was fiddling in the orchestra for a thriller "so melodramatic they had to pump blood out of the cellar before they could finish the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Great Showman | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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