Word: smug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slaying of one of His Majesty's officers by what Empire Poet Kipling called "lesser breeds without the Law" is the sort of thing the British Foreign Office used to handle in a way to make every loyal subject feel smug with satisfaction. In a House of Commons buzzing with expectant indignation last week Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon arose to say with an ominous restraint which would have made a Turkish Sultan quail: "The attention of the Turkish Government is being drawn to the gravity of the slaying of a British officer by Turkish soldiers...
That Where Sinners Meet is a genuinely amusing farce is due less to the smug whimsicalities of A. A. Milne's The Dover Road, from which it derives, than to the charm and delicacy with which it was directed by J. Walter Ruben and acted by an expert cast. Clive Brook is almost as funny while manipulating his guests into embarrassing situations as Reginald Owen while uttering sleepy roars of indignation at finding himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise...
...March 1923, I have had ample opportunity to notice that TIME does not indulge in Tabloid photographs nor Gum-Chewers-Sheetlet reporting. Since the number of April 9 displaying on p. 19 another even bloodier corpse I feel you have definitely joined the brotherhood for which you profess such smug scorn. I realize this is a waste of typewriter ink and time, but hope that my protest will be one of many. Few people enjoy and none needs the sight of photographed corpses. It is revolting, and cheap, and I would like to think that the person responsible for these...
This Man is Mine (RKO). In this display of misery at the country club, Irene Dunne is a smug painter married to a bovine playboy (Ralph Bellamy). When she makes a picture of three trees standing on a hillside to symbolize themselves and their small son, he resumes an old romance with a handsome young divorcée (Constance Cummings). This leads to adjustments in which 1) Ralph Bellamy punches Constance Cummings; 2) Irene Dunne smashes a picture frame on Ralph Bellamy...
...hoped, that the axiom in this instance may justly apply. These references have to do with your editorial of February thirteenth, in which, under the nom de plume Nemo, and with freedom of expression that is startlingly unique, you crack open the nut of smug, self-conceit, and expose the "Kernel" (Charles A. Lindbergh) in most commendable fashion...