Word: smug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iron Duke's gilded lily sat on a bench at the Uptown last week and stole his fire; so we see no reason why she shouldn't continue to do so today at the University. Incidentally, we feel quite smug to present a review of the University films on the day they open; but as one can see, we have seen them already...
...plot of Lowe-McLaglen cinema varies more than its essential pattern: an amiable numbskull outwitted by a smug sophisticate. Cinemaddicts who enjoy listening to the kind of vituperation between Lowe and McLaglen which has remained marketable at the box-office for the past eight years will probably overlook the fact that as detective fiction The Great Hotel Murder is strictly routine...
...burghers, laughing children, biographers have endeavored to make the domestic hard-working Frans Hals into a lowland Cellini. He is important because, while his greater contemporary Rembrandt was a universal genius who might have lived in any country, Hals was first & last a Dutchman, content to record beautifully the smug unimaginative faces of the clays of Holland's greatest prosperity...
...Belisha Beacon one must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
...Accepted with smug satisfaction the happy ending by Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha of the incident in which Turkish shore patrols shot at British officers sailing in Turkish waters, killing one (TIME, July...