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Professor Copeland has been thinking about this orthographical problem since the early days of the Lindbergh trial, and was stimulated into action by a smug letter of justification from the Herald. So whenever students gather in his rooms he tells them about it, and quotes a significant passage from Edgar Allen...
Suggest your getting out the little used, long neck oil can and greasing the old, rusty cogs, for again smug, red-faced TIME is wrong. Your muchly touted Bill Corbus TIME entitled "Stanford's All-American guard" never was named for any position on Grantland Rice's All-American, much less for the position of right guard...
...always been one of our secret ambitions to cozen one of those impeccably smug young men who glide around examination halls, dealing out bluebooks, and making noisome speeches. But it appears that someone beat us to it. There was, it appears, a wager between two amiable fellows, the gist of which was that proctors were or were not worth their salt. And the upshot was that the more intelligent of the two had to prove his point...
...screaming headlines for days by blurting out his inside opinions of the Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations. Premier Lloyd George dignified these proceedings by calling Mr. Bullitt a "liar," referred contemptuously to "a journey some boys are reported to have made to Russia." When smug Philadelphia friends called him a "Bolshevik"' and when his first wife divorced him in 1923, Bill Bullitt married the widow of John Reed, the U. S. Communist who went through the Russian Revolution, wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, died of typhus in Moscow and was buried with...
...purely and simply one designed to fill the dormitories on the right bank of the Charles, and the attempt to clothe it in the gleaming armour of a noble motive is unpleasant. It is, however, typical of the official Harvard hypocritical pose on a number of matters. The same smug assumption of generosity characterizes the University's distribution of scholarships and jobs. The scholarships are the work of philanthropists most of whom have passed to their reward, and are beyond the reach of deserved thanks; student aid in the form of jobs comes mostly from the pockets of those...