Word: smugness
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...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...
...know Bob Read. They fear he will soon start looking around for a three-or four-member congregation to build up. Read himself says: "If these missions ever become self-supporting and turn into parishes, I'll have to ask for another transfer. A minister can become smug with success...
...Mama was terrified" when Flo Nightingale announced she wanted to be a nurse. In 1845, any mother would have felt the same way. Nurses were dirty, drunken, promiscuous. Florence Nightingale would change all that as she was to change many things. British army privates in their fetid barracks, smug bureaucrats in the musty War Office, viceroys in palaces were all to feel the reach of her will and missionary zeal...
...Wallingford, England home, 90-year-old Dr. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge, famed for his tireless attacks on smug optimism, welcomed some visiting relatives and gave photographers a rare smile of smug satisfaction as he performed a skillful balancing act with his two-week-old twin grandchildren, Nicholas and Caroline...