Word: smug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figures for the rest of the trade. If the differences are due to real differences in circumstances, well and good. Very often, however, other divergencies that cannot readily be explained are brought out. It seems to me that the statement "My business is different" usually indicates a feeling of smug contentment, of superiority, of satisfaction, and that the merchant who uses it believes that he has nothing more to learn from his fellow merchants...
...Guila, sister-in-law of Professor Spinosi, a fascinating woman whose metropolitan dress and manners shock the slumbering inhabitants into buzzing activity. All the men, young and old, flock around her, and inhale new life from her glowing personality and energetic example. Deftly she deals telling blows at the smug complacency of the Academy savants and as a final coup d'etat arranges the marriage of Marcella to Enrico...
...late Frederic Schenck and in conclusion wrote: "If I felt sure that the book deserved such honour it should be dedicated to his brave and happy memory." Of the many gracious things that Mr. Wendell has said probably none reveals so clearly the modesty, the utter absence of smug self-satisfaction, that was perhaps the most endearing quality of the teacher...
...more to the control of the government. There must be no more of that "people be damned" attitude, which has all too often characterized the managements in the past Public-spirited men with a broad vision and a desire to serve the community as a whole must replace the smug, self-centered directors of the past. Co-operation must be the keynote of all their endeavors. Given this and a body of loyal employees, Mr. Willard is sure that the roads will make good. The Transportation Act of 1920 is regarded as being of inestimable service in the fulfilment...
...Perhaps it is the breathless jostle of bright costume and eager garrulity, the sheer impetuousness of movement as such, the merrily malicious person of our playwright-imp teasing here, pricking there, now poking a goodly joke if the ribs of conscience, now playing hide-and-seek with a smug morality, always exposing to laughter the foibles, the vanities, the littlenessesses of our too human nature...