Word: conceitedness
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Harvard has radically changed over the past 30 years, but the way it is viewed has not. Harvard students still take the rap for an era when the Yard was the exclusive domain of Andover, Exeter and St. Paul’s graduates. And while the actual students these days...
“It might sound conceited,” freshman shortstop Lauren Brown said, “but I have never played with such talented people before, and if we put it all together we can be Ivy Champs.”
Just as some firms have historically discriminated against applicants with “black-sounding” names, who’s to say others won’t reject Chanel? Perhaps they don’t want to hire someone they suppose is conceited. Chanel, Del Monte and Infiniti...
Some of the t-shirts out there are also just plain arrogant. Dartboard almost bought one when she read the text: “What do Harvard and Yale students have in common? They both got into Yale!” The kid next to Dartboard mumbled, ?...
In his first edition, Poor Richard predicts "the inexorable death" of his rival almanac writer Titan Leeds, giving the exact day and hour. It was a prank borrowed from Jonathan Swift. Leeds fell into the trap, and in his own almanac for 1734 (written after the date of his predicted...