Word: smug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That question seemed unnecessary. Sari Fedak was divorced (1925) from Hungary's most successful playwright, smug Ferenc Molnar, after he had accused her of intimacy with 42 gentlemen, and she had replied in kind with a list of 142 ladies. The sensation, at the time, was international, if not cosmic. Yet the Court asked last week: "Have you a hus-band?" Sari Fedak (shrugging a black, snaky shoulder): "Thank God, no!" The Court: "Have you any physical defects?" Sari Fedak (relaxing in her chair, replying in a sultry tone): "Certainly not-unless in my brain." Ah, reflected the auditors...
...Sherman rather subtly draws for us the smug delight with which two sisters thrust at one another with kindly malice. Farther on, we have a romance of sorority life wherein the benefits of coeducation (absit omen!) are faithfully set down. Now both authors write of love after the college fashion, and accordingly you are bound to recognize some undergraduate friend "be he scholar, be he spark". Consider, for example, the diplomatic telephone call, the battle of wits in the margin of a library book, and there...
This is no occasion, indeed, for smug and shallow indifference. The omission of Cambridge is a telling criticism. A chastened humility and a pontent reformation are called for. The influence of such an advertisement on the college aspirations of prepratory school graduates need hardly be mentioned. The question is more vital even than that. It is one that endangers the high fame and eminence of Harvard University. There can be but one answer...
...transport on this Portuguese isle. At eve, Lord Birkenhead dined, naturally at one of the great hotels-the same in which George Bernard Shaw stopped when he visited Madeira, two winters ago. There the dancing master who taught Mr. Shaw to tango has on display his photograph with the smug inscription: "To the only man who could teach me anything. (Signed) G. B. S." Strolling in to dinner Lord Birkenhead examined the photograph, allowed his lip to curl at the Irish red-head's boast. Drawing his pen he wrote below the Shavian autograph, "Could Birkenhead teach...
...students have asked him, Bishop Ingram stated that the one which had interested him the most was that of a man who asked why, if Christianity was convincing, the possessors of it lacked contentment. To this he replied that a Christian should desire incessant activity rather than seek smug contentment. The Lord Bishop's personality, which thus permeated his entire sermon, held the congregation's interest quite as much as his theme...