Word: conceits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gather increasing entertainment each week, from TIME'S letters, especially from such diverting ones as that of John H. Hammond Jr., (May 7). This lad must be very Junior indeed; the sophomoric conceit fairly oozes from him. The prospect of your losing Mr. Hammond Jr.'s patronage, "unless you change your style or start a phonographic record department" must present a saddening alternative. Incidentally, our Junior's use of such verbal banalities as "quite a few," "Variety has far more than you" and so on, emphasizes the nerve of him, in assuming the role of Mentor...
...with his associates, will learn how to do so in the lecture room. If it is a question of youthful overconfidence in business, experience alone can teach the true valuation. If not, then there is no course possible aside from a course of hard knocks which will drive the conceit from the budding business...
Said the Americus (Ga.) Times Recorder: "We rather think it a case of religious fanaticism running wild. Pardue is . . . wrapped in his little shell of self-conceit . . . he used underhand methods . . . he soiled the cloth he wears. And what good has his babbling accomplished? . . . He created a furor in his woodland village and he had the pleasure of seeing his name and picture in the papers. . . . For a few days he was a big pig in a little...
Here is one contest where defeat carries no sting and victory produces no conceit. As a consequence the game is much the same in prospect as in retrospect. The teams go on the field and the spectators enter the stadium with enthusiasm unalloyed by the distaste of defeat which so often provides a disagreeable undercurrent of repression. All are aware that the afternoon's game holds no potential ruin of the evening's pleasure...
...letters published in your last issue were the last word in blatant conceit. You begin by being rude and contradictory on the subject of Washington's religion; you go on, print a deserved letter of correction (about ships and whistles) because it contains a whining compliment ; then you tell President George Davis how to manage his Davis automobile business; then, forgetting to apologize for the mistake it chastizes, you proudly display a letter from a member of the U. S. Treasury Department; this is followed by an unsolicited list of the U. S. Senators who subscribe to your magazine...