Word: inferiorated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frustrated by their inability for the first time in seven years to sneer at Harvard's inferior football teams, Dartmouth College has, unbelievably enough, deserted the physical field and turned to the intellectual type of criticism for the relief of its inferiority complex. A certain Hanoverian professor named Burns enlivened our day yesterday with his claims that Harvard is provincial; that Harvard's history staff is composed of a tight little Cambridge-Cape Cod set of Anglophiles; and that their influence is responsible for the woeful lack of knowledge of the American people at large about Mexico, Canada, and Russia...
Blowing clouds of fury from a thick cigar, he showed newsmen the answer he had written to the President. He would meet with Mr. Taylor, he wrote. But he raked the Board for being "casual and lackadaisical to the point of indifference," for calling before it "only the inferior executives of the corporations involved," and for dumping "its own sorry mess into the already overburdened lap of the Chief Executive...
...Unfinished Business" is the kind of picture people are talking about when they blast Hollywood for wasting its best talent on inferior material. It's directed by one of the top men in the industry, Gregory LaCava; it's got Robert Montgomery and Irene Dunne, two sure-fire bets for a successful film, in the lead spots. And it still doesn't click...
...rail lines from the south, the Black Sea area, had been cut off, and the Nazis were on their way. Again U.S. aid might be too little and too late. There remained Vladivostok-and that was a long, long way from Moscow (5,000 miles of inferior railroad and foul weather) or from wherever the Russian Army must be kept supplied and fighting. And U.S. aid thus far, in four months of fierce Russian resistance, had consisted of 200 to 300 bombers (some diverted from Britain), four tankers of oil to Vladivostok in September...
...telephone calls (via lackey holding portable phone) while lunching at Hollywood's Brown Derby is to acquire izzat. To work for a mere $1,000 a week after once earning $2,000 is to lose izzat. Film folk of superior izzat, putting in a phone call to an inferior, wait studiously until the inferior is on the wire before deigning to pick up the telephone receiver. Peter the Hermit, who struts along Hollywood Boulevard in his bare feet, is short on cash but long on izzat...