Word: egotistical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After dinner, feeling sick and savage, started off for a solitary ramble. Traveling eastward, found a beautiful road through the woods . . . was gone all the p.m. Conceived a great work to immortalize me to all posterity . . . 'Confessions of an Egotist.' . . . Went off to walk with Freshman Thompson in the p.m. Visited a cider-mill [and] got some sweet cider and good apples. Conversation ranged widely: religion, poetry, schoolteaching, genius, societies, etc. . . . [With another student] discussed the Episcopal Church . . . preaching, prostitution, and a variety of other subjects. . . . Found the North College semi-joe [outhouse] all in a blaze, surrounded...
...young man" is now an "egotist among the bedeviled." The furious, intense talk of the Greenwich Village days has been replaced by the caterwauling of women and their sycophantic male companions at Westchester County cocktail parties. One's college friends are now discovered to be boobs and morons. The great dream of the Revolution, the Russian experiment which above everything else gave life a meaning and a significance, is ever, and in the morning after one can get rid of the hangover only by beginning to drink just a little earlier every...
...articles based on letters (they go back to 1853 when Twain was 18) which Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote to members of his family and to his onetime publishing partner, Charles L. Webster.* They often show Twain at his worst-techy, cussed, filled with distrust of his fellows, a domineering egotist. They also often show him in full comical steam. In sum, they make the difficult man a more understandable genius...
Bertie Charles Forbes, Hearst financial columnist, publisher (Forbes Magazine), author (Keys to Success), was sued for a separation by his wife Adelaide after 28 years. She charged that her husband is a "bully, egotist, tyrant and bore," and that she had to "draw his bath, lay out his clothes, button his shirt and underwear, cut his toenails, lace his shoes and open his car door...