Word: smugness
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...known sports" tournament in which marbles, for reasons now obscure, became the dominant contest. By the 1700s the marble tournament had become an annual Good Friday ritual in Tinsley Green. The tourney began in the morning; at high noon (the hour Sussex taverns open), the referee cried "Smug!" and the tournament ended. The rules are wondrously simple: 49 marbles are placed in the "pitch" (ring) and each member of the competing teams takes his turn at trying to knock one out. Shooting is a thumbs-only proposition-a flick of the wrist constitutes a "fudge" (foul) and disqualifies the contestant...
...York's New York may not be the city that all of its citizens would recognize (going broke on $80,000 a year is still a very special disaster). And the magazine's critics still point to its smug, In-crowd perspective. "New York," says Freelance Writer Leopold Tyrmand, "is to inflatable plastic furniture what the New Yorker is to Chippendale...
...referred to as "grownup," is its easy (too easy) explanation of current woes and rages that many Americans find painful and inexplicable. What makes it potentially baneful is that, by putting all the vociferous, outrageous young in one conveniently labeled specimen bottle, Feuer encourages his read ers in the smug, seductive notion that all their criticisms of today's world should be dismissed...
...recent New Yorker cartoon, a scrofulous bum is shuffling past a Broadway theater at intermission time. With smug insouciance, he addresses a passing query to the patrons under the marquee: "How about it, folks? Getting your eleven dollars and ninety cents' worth?" Top ticket prices are $15 for 1776, and to answer the bum's question, it is a bearable $3 show...
...THAT two different satirical revues are vying for the smug little laughs of Harvard audiences, the for the smug little laughs of Harvard audiences, the Proposition and the Light Company are frequently mentioned together in reviews. They shouldn't be. Celebrating its first birthday last Thursday night with the unveiling of a new line of topical sketches, the Proposition has proved that political jokes are built on delivery--and the Proposition's delivery is the best around...