Word: smug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boots profitably) may be widely useful. Occasionally, as in the essay on old age, genuine feeling transcends the overlying complacency. But on the whole, the level of art M. Maurois recommends for living and the level he achieves in this book are of a piece: cautious, servile, opportunistic, rationalized, smug...
...slum conditions, colonial policies, commiserates with war-discomforted Britons at home. As the Socialist Forward recently warned: "He blandly takes the British public by the ear and turns its startled gaze on the examples of incompetence and even criminal injustice of our politicians," singling out facts which "a smug press has succeeded in keeping out of the headlines...
...time the Commission submitted its report late last year, Great Britain was at war. In peacetime the Government might have made the smug point that, bad as things are in the British-ruled islands, they are a whole lot better than conditions in self-ruled Haiti and the Dominican Republic. But with a war on, it was better policy to do something to make things better. So last week up-&-doing little Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald uprose in the House of Commons to announce what the Government planned to do. Cagey Scot that he is, Mr. MacDonald...
...that party now resorts to taxing the pay envelope of the lowest wage earner. The tragic irony of "honest" (or stupid) Mayor Lamberton's inaugural words, "If it [my administration] fails, you can blame the Republican Party," must be obvious to all but Philadelphia's majority of smug and supine voters. Also TIME-worthy is the Mayor's earlier advice to city employes that loyalty "is the finest attribute of all ... loyalty to your city and to the political leader who may have gotten you your...
...neck out to say that Gene Krupa's was the coming band of the year. We like our position even more after having heard his new record of "Three Little Words." As a matter of fact, after having heard him on the air the other night, we feel positively smug about the whole thing. Gene's band sounds more like Ellington than any other white band playing today...