Word: smug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parable is one that has been often quoted with smug exultation in needy homes, in great houses with lamentable quakings. It has to do with a camel, a rich man's son, Heaven, the eye of a needle. The law, equally familiar, has to do with two Gods-one the Father of the Christian faith, the other Mam mon; a man cannot serve both. If he cleaves to the one, must he foreswear wealth? or can he discipline wealth and its devouring deity to the service he has himself elected...
...grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years," Falstaff (Scotti). The heat of his singing had melted his makeup. He had taken numerous curtain calls with Scotti. People were still applauding? Doubtless they wanted the bronze-voiced Italian. He did not know that music lovers, cold-eyed elegants, smug critics alike were shouting through the applause, in the darkness of the house, "Tibbett! Tibbett...
WINGS - Ethel M. Kelley - Knopf ($2.00). The caricature of a complacent male reviewing, through the smoke of his cigarette, his many loves . . . ladies, who for desire of his smug lips are hanging by the neck from his shoestrings, plunging to death from the bridge of his nose, smothering themselves in his pockets. Such a caricature is Jasper Hutchinson. Also, he is a genius, and resembles a Greek god; possibly the Greek god Priapus.* The story of his devastating parade through the, lives of many women begins with the last-the little debutante whom he is to marry. Drinking the honey...
...certain candidate for President . . . had tried to make thirty thousand hear two of his opening paragraphs. A hundred feet away a man with a ministerial beard, an Adam's apple of prominence, a dyspeptic face, dressed in black, six feet four tall, with a voice which indicated a smug and irreproachable life and which in its elocutionary power could not be equaled, spoke accusingly...
Finally the constricted English village whose smug hyprocrisy has been shattered by the angel decides he must go. He does, in an Elijah-like blaze of glory, being burnt while saving the housemaid's brat. Thereupon everything turns out to be just a dream of a country vicar, going up in smoke...