Word: conceits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uttered in a careful voice. But the man of legend is a Jack of a different silk. Bleak in person and in countenance, sprung of a thin and righteous line of thee-and-thouers, he has sharpened caution into vehemence: every bravery of his stride is his, every fine conceit of skill and insolence. For a while his thundering ways prevailed, and the crowd cheered; then the soft-spoken stranger won back his lost advantage and more too, so that he seemed to surpass the champion, and the crowd trembled. But the champion had been before in evil straits...
...Mussolini and the Italians." Friction had begun before the ship left Rome. There was a scene when Riiser-Larsen, a big, strong, silent man, was reduced to tears by Nobile's vociferous demand for recognition and authority. "That man Nobile," Riiser-Larsen had moaned, "has more gall and conceit than I thought any civilized person would dare to show. ... I simply can't stand...
...last week, at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.). The young ladies performed a pageant adapted from The Faerie Queen,* that poetic conceit of a "sweet wit and pretty invention" which young Edmund Spenser wrote to flatter Queen Elizabeth while he was helping to pacify her province of Ireland. Miss Lorraine Keck galloped right nobly as the Red Cross Knight to rescue pretty Helen Howard (Una) from the unspeakable machinations of Ivy Trace (Archimago) and her vicious minions. "Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound," the college musicians rendering appropriate strains from Meyerbeer, Gounod, Arens, Liszt or Wagner...
Writing in the current Atlantic Monthly, of this public attitude, Agnes Repplier correlates a surprising unanimity of conceit among Americans. Her authorities range from Dr. Frank Crane who advises Europeans to study American conduct since the war before continuing their wilful ways, to the late Walter Hines Page, who once wrote that he would not give Long Island or Moore County for the whole of Europe. In between, of course, lies the general run of journalistic and political opinion, spoken by editors and Congressmen, whose respective publics relish a savory Americanism...
...been received with due regard to their self-importance. Upper-classmen have usually, and with justice sneered at this charge or have accepted it as another distinguishing trait. That they have treated it with such levity has probably been due to superficial consideration and not to any profound Machiavellian conceit. Hence it is with pleasure that they welcome the Student Council's latest offspring, the Committee on Relations With Schools...