Word: fatuousness
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...FATUOUS INSOLENCE Sinclair, one of the beneficiaries of Fall's prostitution of the office of Secretary of the Interior, follows Fall in refusing to testify before a Senate committee, on the ground that his testimony might incriminate...
...worthy efforts these symbols represent, but for the fancied prestige they infer. Failing to see that all glory depends on whole-hearted devotion to work, they attribute the glamor of the varsity letter to some intrinsic quality rather than to the strenuous efforts of generations of athletes. Their fatuous grinding away for "recognition" has for its goal an impossible flaunting of decorations, while the "big" man is invariably the least ostentatious. But the small pompous individual lusts to be clad in titles, honors, and ceremonies, and his narrowness prevents his seeing that "Art for art's sake" is the only...
...progress toward taking the measures essential for rehabilitation. And Russia today persists not only in refusing to take those measures byt also in sticking to the very measures and practices which have brought distress and ruin upon her. Whether the clique of tyrants who are responsible for her fatuous course with its disastrous results will mend their ways and conform to the economic principles which the world in general is agreed upon as essential to prosperity, and to those moral principles which will permit other nations to enter into confident and friendly relations with her, is a question which only...
...word to Mr. Nickalls. In all probability his resignation as head coach will be greeted with the fatuous sarcasm of the numerous sporting editors the country over. Until the last six weeks, however, his relations with the university authorities have been satisfactory in every way. He produced in other years winning crews that proved his ability as a coach. We hope he will return to England taking the memory of those Yale years with him rather than the feeling of friction which has followed the disastrous races of the spring of 1921. Yale News...
...Therefore, it seems to me, that the Boston man who (like myself) gradated form Harvard can afford to laugh good-naturedly at the allegation that he is "like an egg which has been laid twice--each time successfully", and acknowledge the corn. And most of us old grads are fatuous enough to believe that the University can afford to invite honest criticism and profit by it. Certainly, she is too great to fear the venom of the disgruntled or the hostility of the unworthy...