Word: conceitedness
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"I grew weary of being a clerk and counting nickels and dimes. I wanted to deal in millions like my two idols. I wanted to go into business for myself. I wanted to be my own boss and make millions." When Motorman Dodge died, Cromwell organized a company to finance...
Despite this retiring temper, the Atlantic has never been provincial, except perhaps in its earliest days. Avoiding the pitfalls of a conceited brahminism, it has always selected and passed on to its readers the best of Boston's achievement, and has succeeded at the same time in representing all sections...
Is My Face Red? (RKO) takes a somewhat less complaisant view of colyumists. Its hero (Ricardo Cortez) is an impudent, conceited hack, perpetually touching pitch. "I am a mirror reflecting the spirit of the times," he says, and later: "I am the guy who made Broadway famous." He has a...
Sirs: If I ever looked upon a tough piece of earthenware; a cracked clay tankard, the handle of which is a huge flyswatter intended, presumably, to be an ear, it is the cut of James Montgomery Flagg in the March 21 issue of TIME. Flagg's mug appears as...
Blin Gardner, an ingenuous country lad with a knack for mechanical things, is about to take off for Japan in an aeroplane financed by his pretty fiancee and built by two old "characters" in order to receive a fifty thousand dollar prize. After a great deal of emotion, he finally...