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During 23 years as Dean of London's St. Paul's, Dr. William Ralph Inge (rhymes with sing) had blazed away at many a plump and unsuspecting target. His massive pulpit barrages against smug optimism earned him the nickname of "the Gloomy Dean," and his 31 books won him a reputation as "the most formidable literary dean since Swift." Last week, 16 years and eight books after his retirement, it was evident that 90-year-old Dean Inge had not yet run out of ammunition. In Cambridge for a meeting of Britain's Modern Churchman...
...smug assumptions of the cold war era was that the U.S. was forearming itself with a stockpile of strategically scarce commodities to see it through a wartime siege. So when the Munitions Board announced last week that the U.S. stockpile was only 38.4% of what it ought to be (with another 12% on order), there was a rush to track down the villains behind such negligence...
...Speaking at the plenary session of the International Socialist Conference in the flag-hung Folkets Hus, Phillips said: "It is high time Socialists stopped nagging the Americans and denouncing them as capitalists ... At present, most European governments are less progressive than the Truman Administration . . . We must not be too smug about European traditions . . . Between the two world wars, America reacted to the world crisis [with] Roosevelt and the New Deal, while Europe produced Hitler and Mussolini...
...book will make few happy except for the staunch supporters of the Father; to most other Roman Catholics it will probably appear smug and complacent...
...member of a resistance group that opposed our participation in Hitler's war of aggression. For our anti-war propaganda we used, among other things, postcard reproductions of cartoons showing various pieces of war machinery in the shape of grotesque monsters. There was an immensely smug bomber chased by a ferocious little fighter, a dinosaur-like gun, a radio imp, and others...