Word: smug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a professorial chair, or a pulpit, as it is to gain accurate information about Renaissance literature in a saloon. Thus the only people capable of answering the Dry argument referred to are those who actually drink, and if they presume to raise their voices in refutation, prohibitionists, with smug complacency, scourge them as drinkers, law-breakers, and menaces to society, and hence incapable to advancing any decent sentiments...
...editorials that take opposite sides on the question of prohibition polls in general and collegiate prohibition polls in particular. One says that the CRIMSON'S drive to ascertain college opinion is one of the three big phantoms staring the dry leaders in the face, the other takes the smug "nothing-ever-matters" attitude and joins the ranks of the cynics by saying that the collegiate statistics do not delve deep enough...
...unspecified amount from Dartmouth seniors. A public led by impressionistic journalists to believe that a demure Dartmouth student body picks its feminine ideals out of Cooper's novels and that the height of conviviality in Hanover is represented by an ice cream soda, should be jolted from smug approval by that word "speed", which while not specific, somehow manages to convey an impression of cocktails and rumble seats...