Word: smugness
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...Farley, Palmer, Crowley have "resigned." Brigadier General A. C. Dalton was handed the shaky sceptre last week. He has already "handed in his resignation" to the Shipping Board, although the latter graciously will not "accept" during General Dalton's good behavior in its eyes. The Shipping Board, naturally smug, last week tilted its nose still higher, neglected to seek President Coolidge's approval before making the new appointment...
...President awaited serenely the adjournment of Congress, smug and trim in the cool White House. He told Reporters that he enjoyed the lassitudinous Washington climate during July and August. However, he added, he believed in getting away for a little while, if only for the sake of change in environment, that, if the Capitol were in the Adirondacks, he would leave just the same. News arrived, simultaneously with the President's announcement, that one Andrew Bishop, who lives near the Coolidge summer camp, had frozen his ears on a frosty night last week...
...Great War we have had a tidal wave of occultism. Spiritualism- with all its paraphernalia of ouija boards, trumpets, dark cabinets, materializations, automatic writings and spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect that...
...when smug, triumphant conservatism is more dominant in politics than it has been for a generation, it is not surprising to find a new type of liberalism being advocated by the New Republic. The liberalism of the future, the editors insist must be of the cautious, experimental type, a state of mind based not upon identification with a specific program, but upon the study of life and social processes. Militant liberalism rarely thrives unless it is given the impetus of hard times or a favorable shift in ordinary economic conditions. And the prosperous condition of industry in general has practically...
Undoubtedly the recalcitrant veterans are sincere in the patriotism of their action. Their conception of patriotism, however, shows that a certain part of our population has not advanced beyond that feverish pre-war stage when national consciousness ran to feelings of smug superiority; and Mars and Machievelli reigned supreme in international relations...