Word: smugly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oskar Lange was the pedantic Pole. The rotund onetime teacher and U.S.-naturalized citizen, who now serves as Warsaw's Ambassador to Washington, squirmed, mugged and needled his way through the discussion. He listened with smug approval to his own high-pitched voice, glanced around beamingly for the laudatory nods and bobs of his four advisers. The more satisfied he seemed with his role as apologist for Russia and cross-examiner of Iran, the more pronounced became his facial...
...says Editor Housman, Wordsworth is the great poet "it is most easy to laugh at, and sometimes the most difficult not to find dull." He was conservative, parochial, smug. "I could have written like Shakespeare," Wordsworth is reported to have said to Charles Lamb, "had I had a mind." "Yes," stammered Lamb, "it was the m-m-mind that was 1-1-lacking...
...Assails Smug Attitude...
...repeated statement in certain smug circles that 'any body who has what it takes can get all the education he wants in the U.S.A. just isn't so," Conant stated. The United States is "a long way from anything like equality of educational opportunity...
...wheat elevators, was the archetype of a million repressed U.S. small-town men & women. Even readers who detested Carol Kennicott as much as her Gopher Prairie neighbors did were attracted by her husband, solid, plodding long-suffering Dr. Will Kennicott. Main Street was a shriek against the standardized smugness of U.S. life and a coo of satisfaction that it was so solidly smug...