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...Voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. Alfred E. Smith sought the Presidency in 1928, when a man who raised his voice on behalf of the great causes of social justice and Democratic principles was regarded by the stock-ticker patriots with smug toleration or as a potential enemy of his country...
...squalid tale is the healthy, unfulfilled companionship of Gloria and Eddie, paralleling the turbulent, often miserable story of Gloria and the older man. Plain hostility to the older generation is apparent in John O'Hara's portraits of men over 40, since he paints them as depraved, smug, or made cowardly by the fear of publicity, writes unconvincingly of Gloria's family life. Gloria and Eddie, rattling off interrupted reminiscences of childhood, wisecracking and communicating in scrambled, mocking cliches, understand one an-other so completely that, John O'Hara insinuates, only Eddie might have saved...
...Weeks of Hornblower & Weeks was Warren Harding's late Secretary of War, John Wingate Weeks. His only son, Sinclair ("Sinkie") Weeks, is president of United-Carr and longtime Republican Mayor of smug Newton, Mass. When not occupied with fasteners, "Sinkie" Weeks bedevils Democratic Governor James M. Curley, whose limousine has twice run down escorting troopers, one of them in "Sinkie's" bailiwick. When Curley denied that he had been personally involved in the Newton crash, "Sinkie" held an investigation, brought forth witnesses who said that they had seen His Excellency in the car. On the side, "Sinkie" Weeks...
Without this experience, he may never appreciate the excitement that pervades a fan at the inviolability of Warner Oland's person. He may never understand the smug smiles which accompany the first three or four attempts on the detective's life. He may never grasp the delight at the inevitable final threat, appalling as it always is. For we fans know that Charlie has only covered three or four cities in the world. This time it is Shanghai and a dope ring...
Your story in TIME, Aug. 12 is swell, but when you refer to Marblehead as a "smug Boston suburb," it's just too bad. Imagine Marblehead a suburb of anything...