Word: conceits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whereupon, a spectator was heard to say: "The conceit of that man [Tilden], referring to Hunter as the junior member of that team...
...Haskell's self-esteem is tragic. However, "Conceit is God's gift...
Maloney explained that in his case it was not conceit, as he realized exactly what lay before him, but in the face of existing conditions he felt that he would defeat Sharkey and then get an opportunity to box Tunney...
...story parallels Wagner's Tristan and Isolde?a king, a vassal sent a-wooing. The first scene disclosed King Eadgar's (Lawrence Tibbett's) banquet hall, its rough-hewn table boards, trophies of woodland kills, crude spears, armor: discloses also the royal widower's conceit to take a second wife. Aelfrida, daughter of the Thane of Devon, famed for beauty, is in his mind. With Saxon stolidity, however, he withholds decision until assured that the lady, whom he has never personally inspected, merits her reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother...
...Democracy is non-constructive," maintained C. P. Wright 1G, a student from Oxford. "It gives way to more efcient organs which do its work. A Democracy appeals to all that is bad in man, to his conceit, to his pugnacity, and to his sense of injustice...