Word: smug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Oct. 7, 1935, you referred to our suburban paradise as "smug." . . . Largely because of resentment at this maltreatment, the Newton Community Forum was organized to bring light and truth into our congenial self-sufficiency...
...profit under the Coster management, a syndicate of underwriters floated a $10,000,000 stock issue. With that money Coster began putting together a nationwide distributing organization under the name of McKesson & Robbins, Inc. Frank D. Coster became F. Donald Coster and moved to Fairfield, Connecticut, to live in smug respectability. Julian Thompson quit Bond & Goodwin to become treasurer of McKesson & Robbins...
...church leaders heard speeches and reports last week, of which the most outspoken was the report of the Committee on the State of the Church, headed by President John Alexander Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary. Critical of present-day church life ("smug and complacent"), the report said: "The churches as we know them are at a great disadvantage in the new spiritual conflict that begins to loom before us. . . ." Of current preaching: "Multitudes who are aware of moral weakness and realize their sinful enmeshment in situations they cannot change are being goaded to despair by moralistic sermons...
THERE may be something a bit smug about the fellow who goes to Maine to spend his summers and then returns to the office full of intimate tales of Maine people, Maine lakes, coastlines, hills, skies, orchards, barns, and trees. We envy his close acquaintance and understanding of such things which are realities to him and only quaint oddities to us who travel in a subway instead of a buggy...
Though the Victorian era has long been considered smug and lacklustre, readers of Victorian lives may yet decide that Victorianism turned out as many unconventional characters as Prohibition did drinkers...