Word: smug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also I wish many smug writers my waistline...
...More smug than the Boston Herald's haggling over the die-hard principle is its blanket statement to the effect that there is no suffering throughout the drought stricken area. How can such sweeping optimism be entertained by a newspaper almost two thousand miles away in the face of the fact that the representatives in Congress for that area are clamoring for help for their constituents. Whether these demands for aid are a political move or not does not excuse the Boston Herald from appearing to play a political game...
...smug letter of Russell J. Marden (TIME, Nov. 10, heading "Inspiration & Contrast") gives me a pain in the neck. He compares the meeting of 60 veterans of one division with an American Legion convention of about twice 60,000, to the disparagement of the latter...
...forward, eyes aflame, to defend the East, we cannot help laughing aloud at many of his clever pokes in the less salubrious corners of that "frowsy and fidgetty little hole called Europe." For though his main thesis may be a defense of India, his dislike of all that is smug in Europe does not have to be read between the lines...
...Association but of a large number of undergraduates who were not present at the benefit dance in Brattle Hall. There is a definite feeling that the campaign from the start has been motivated not by a genuine sympathy with the discharged workers but by a downright inclination towards smug exploitation...