Word: smug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Husbands desert their wives for lighter frays, liquors saturate the veins of these hardy Americans, and they occasionally gather to talk over business in a disorderly fashion. The president is a smug person who speaks of his respect for morals and is later discovered by one of his employees leaving the house of a certain madame who is a flea exterminator; the employee is immediately remunerated by receiving a much higher position in the company.... Sinclair Lewis might have written a similar story ten years ago; the satire is always obvious and amusing. There are several plots, all rather involved...
...disturbance is cool, assured Mariella (Gladys Cooper) who has married one of the brothers. She responds with rudeness to the spinster sister's rudeness, with love to the love of David (Raymond Massey), the eldest brother. Mariella's husband is smug and blind, but David's wife Judy (Adrianne Allen) sees clearly. Because she likes Mariella, because she loves David and is grateful to him for marrying her, Judy steps under the falling side of a burning barn. Almost mad with resentment, grief and frustration, David strikes crashing discords on the piano, breaks plates. It is Mariella...
...Smug Cambridge barbarians repairing to the Germanic Museum to obtain a little more polish for their cultural veneer, gape dumbly at the exhibit there now on display. So foreign to them is a spirit better constituted to create than to jape, to judge, not jape, to direct, not to drift, to lead, not to lag, that they apprehend only their own failure to understand the inspiring evidence of the German spirit placed before them...
Meantime a National Conference on Students in Politics composed of eleven Red-to-Pink student organizations was hearing Secretary of Agriculture Wallace crackle: "There is something altogether too smug, complacent and self-satisfied about the youth of the United States." Before adjournment the Conference took a stand against R. O. T. C., war, racial discrimination, Fascism; for Federal aid to education, a Government "equally concerned for the good...
Professor Copeland has been thinking about this orthographical problem since the early days of the Lindbergh trial, and was stimulated into action by a smug letter of justification from the Herald. So whenever students gather in his rooms he tells them about it, and quotes a significant passage from Edgar Allen...