Word: smugness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden thought possessed him; and he looked in his wallet, worried for a moment. But there they were, hiding behind a dollar bill. "Dartmouth vs. Harvard, "they said on their smug twin faces. "Section 34, Row 11,9 and 10. At 2 p.m. Harvard Stadium...
...excised before it had in any way infected any general or major part of the body politic . . . If in the end some perhaps once-promising and once-worthy political or public career is ended and the bell tolls on it . . . let no one take it as the occasion for smug self-righteousness or partisan satisfaction. It is a matter which affects every political party and every citizen, and every party and citizen suffers...
...case and other revelations made around that time, it did not think that all the accusations about Communism were nonsense. It expected some housecleaning-or at least an official admission that the house had been a bit dirty. Truman stubbornly continued to resist such suggestions. When Acheson made his smug statement on Hiss, he set up the pins for McCarthy...
...Smail's review of the Advocate in Tuesday's issue of the CRIMSON. It seems the smug Mr. Smail sees the reviewer Mr. Kaiser as too virtuosic to have much value in his criticism; he challenges Mr. Kaiser's right to use the phrase "the not-so-faint susurrus of hosannahs," which "makes a mockery of the English language." He recommends that Mr. Kaiser get a good dose of Fowler's "Modern English Usage." As it turns out it would seem that Ezra Pound, about whom the review was written, is the one who needs Fowler. (P.S. I am sure...
...more than that, it is good fun. The picture makes Willie (Tom Ewell) and Joe (David Wayne) a couple of semiliterate country bumpkins wise in the ways of the Army and the war. While fighting the enemy in the Italian campaign, they must also do battle with a smug, freshly arrived captain (Jeffrey Lynn) civilian black-marketeers of all ages, every MP in Naples and, wherever they go, the endless toils of Army red tape. It is buoyed all along by the expertly funny, warmly sympathetic playing of Broadway's Tom (John Loves Mary) Ewell in his best movie...