Word: smug
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will not do to sit back in smug complacency and say "my talk is all right," or "it's nobody's business." Collegiate life in general can bear improving. In a university, if anywhere, ideas should creep into the conversation. And the value of talking, when mind meets mind in frank communion and keen interplay, can be compared favorably to text-book study. The undergraduate could learn more of the satisfaction one feels when he can truly say, as Dr. Johnson said (and Stevenson quoted), "Sir, we had a good talk...
...student who has any sincerity in his soul will see to it that he is not tainted with this smug spirit whose end is death...
...presents a mysterious Kentucky major, who is wiser than the world knows,--wiser, indeed, than the reader suspects, till the amusing "denouement," on the famous street, makes one wish that the suspense had lasted longer. More ambitious is Mr. Murdock's "A Change of Heart," which tells how a smug "scientific philanthropist," at last convinced by sad experience of his own inability to help his fellowmen by mere doles of money, is converted, not to a more humane sort of philanthropy, but to golf! Possibly the characters in the story would be more life-like if the author...
...Many of us are apt to attribute to what we call "the Harvard type" an attitude of more or less bored indifference to mere brute athletics, while feeling a smug assurance of our own enthusiastic virile support of our teams. And yet, year after year, we go to the great game and submit to being out-sung and out cheered by these disciples of boredom...
...Frank Jerningham, R. H. Holt '11 Peter Fabell, the Merry Devil of Edmonton, F. M. Eliot '11 Coreb, a spirit, H. P. Fowler '10 Blague, the host, O. W. Haussermann '12 Sir John, a priest, R. C. Benchley '12 Banks, a miller of Waltham, R. D. Whittemore '13 Smug the Smith, H. W. Miller '12 Sexton, K. McR. Clark '11 Bilbo, R. F. Duncan '12 Brian, W. R. Ohler '10 Ralph, Brian's man, P. Lieder '10 Friar Hildersham, H. P. Fowler '10 Benedick, B. Beaman '13 Chamberlain, K. McR. Clark '11 Lady Dorcas Clare, F. H. Cooke '10 Millicent...