Word: conceits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have had the privilege of Felix Frankfurter's friendship for 30 years, and I have never found him touched by the conceit you say characterizes him. Not that that is a sin; it is usually a mark of self-faith. Besides, if your charge were true, how would it affect his usefulness on the Supreme Bench, of which, you admit, he is its deepest scholar ? ... HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE
...platitude honors, only rival to B. C. the biographer is B. C. the aphorist. Last week, in one 400-word column on how to be successful, he dropped one dozen mottoes, including "Pride prejudices . . . Conceit begets coldness . . . Selfishness shrivels sympathy . . . Almightiness kills admiration. . . ." He also cited Kettering, Owen Young, Willkie, Lincoln to prove that "radiators of happiness . . . multiply contracts as well as contacts...
...living man. One woman knows more: his wife and onetime pupil, Dr. Phyllis Ackerman. Surrounded at home by Persian books, pots, cats, he is intolerant of contemporary Western art, architecture, music, hates jazz. Says he: "The assertive egotism of Western artists, the adulation that has so often inflamed their conceit, the assumption that they are apart from common life, unique in endowment and thereby in license, would have puzzled the cultivated Persian in every period except the most recent...
Down in No'th Ca'lina, which some unkind person once called a valley of self-consciousness between two mountains of conceit (Virginia and South Carolina), they appreciate a politician. When Jim Farley stopped off at Charlotte's Southern Railway station one day last week, the mayor gave Democratic Chairman Farley the city's key, Charlotte's postmen gave Postmaster General Farley a leather traveling bag and the Elks gave Elk Farley a hat which unfortunately proved to be a couple of sizes too small for his bald head...
...unprecedented successes in rowing have not spoiled his modest, unassuming, gentlemanly character. . . . His example to the youth of America ... of high sportsmanship, indomitable perseverance, self-discipline and an ability to take victory without conceit...