Word: smugness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...month (TIME, Feb. 20), this might have seemed a blessing. Of such critics the superintendents took no direct notice last week. But they were girded to fight, most of them agreeing, however reluctantly, with a Wisconsin superintendent's statement: "The teaching profession as a whole has been too smug in it? reliance upon universal desire for good schools." Said Dr. Jesse Homer Newlon of Manhattan's Lincoln School: "It is time to smash the tradition that the teacher must be neutral in political matters. . . . They must participate actively as an organized group [more than...
...search all Aeschylus and Sophocles without finding a better example of hubris than Mr. Hoover's behavior in 1928. [His] . . . was not the wanton violence of the ancient tragic heroes but a smug arrogance. . . . His campaign promises ran to that excess which above all things offended the Greek temperament, which seemed above all things to invite the correcting interposition of Nemesis. . . . Compare him. for example, with Oedipus. Oedipus, like Hoover, thought very well of himself. We first see him when his country is suffering from a severe and unexpected depression. . . . He has appointed Kreon as a fact-finding commission. Kreon...
...canvass of manufacturers throughout the United Kingdom revealed everything from smug satisfaction among British steel men last week to dismal gloom in the textile area, where mill owners said that under the new schedules they will have no advantage in competing with Canadian mills. Bitterly textile men recalled that the Mother Country's Chief Delegate at Ottawa was Stanley Baldwin of Baldwin's Ltd., famed British steel & iron works. In return for Canada's "favors" (such as they are) Great Britain will take an historic step, abandoning her sacrosanct principle of a "Free British Meal Table...
...unemployed and unemployment has risen to a total in excess of 10.000.000. What has Congress done? We have brought about no recovery in business by any action so far and it is clear that private industry is unable to take up the slack. Thus far we have been smug, complacent, waiting for someone else. But the situation can't be met that way. . . . The primary purpose behind this bill is to help States and municipalities which are being forced to abandon projects because they cannot sell securities." The relief legislation had hardly gone to conference before President Hoover released...
...from Czechoslovakia by the Czechoslovak Government, which will not permit its starving Ruthenians to accept them even as a gift. That Ruthenians are starving their Deputies in the Czechoslovak Chamber have asserted again & again. The last time this blighted province was up for debate, Ruthenian Deputy Kurtyak shouted, "You smug people here in Prague don't realize that 15,000 Ruthenian children are on the brink of starving to death. For God's sake help our children if you wont help...