Word: smug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for that is that for a lot of smug and over stuffed slobs...
...audiences, long accustomed to enduring without means of retaliation her displays of smug feminine understanding, may derive sneaking, sadistic satisfaction from the fate that overtakes Ann Harding in this picture. Otherwise its excellence is impaired when, in an attempt to achieve a horrifying contrast with the subdued tone of earlier sequences, Director Frank Lee permits his cast to overact the climax with some of the wildest grimacing witnessed since the screen became articulate. Good shot: Gerald excusing himself in a Paris cabaret to pick out his favorite brandy, in the cellar...
...meaning which the play may carry is to be found in the line spoken by Ann Holt, bored daughter of the nouveauriche T. Roger Holt: "Damn a social system which produces rich fathers, smug mothers, droopy sons, and finished daughters." This of course is pretty sweeping; the Country Club set should feel thoroughly chagrined. But then the affair wanders back into comedy pure and romantic in fact these often charming and often rather bewildering oscillations between comedy and comment set the tone of "Life's a Villain." In the long run it's the plot that counts. The author...
...telegram which consisted of the word HA! repeated 50 times. The radical New Masses showed a cartoon cop barking into a microphone: "Pick up a nut at the Literary Digest office. He keeps trying to buy the joint for two bits ." Even the august New York Times hurled a smug thunderbolt: "Among the rewards or consolations of this Presidential election, most citizens will have already made up a 'little list' of political nuisances of which they have now got rid. One of these is the Literary Digest poll. It will scarcely venture to show its face again...
...Wild" is the story of a small town girl (Irene Dunne) who goes to the big city to make good, or rather a mean commercial artist (Melvyn Douglas). He discovered her secret, that she was a writer of smart books, exposed her and dishonored her in her own provincially smug town, and made her fall in love with him; but he was married...