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The Americans have a well-known expression about 'swelled-head' as a description of self-approval, and the other day I heard a remarkable fantasia upon this air.
If she mislays, indeed, if she does not improve the power of self-criticism that special dry American humour which the great Lincoln had she might soon develop the intolerant provincialism which has so often been the bane of the earth and the undoing of nations. If she gets swelled-head the world will get cold-feet.
True, some of this company here, suffering from swelled-head, the harebrained impetuosity of youth, or judging that to them alone had been bequeathed the secret of all requisite reforms, advanced theories of their own composing.
"My idea has worked out a lot better than I anticipated." Dickie glanced coldly at the sheet but made no effort to take it from his hand. Looking him full in the eye, she observed: "I'm about caught up with that idea of yours. I don't see that there is anything in it to cause any one to get the swelled-head." "Who's getting the swelled-head?" demanded Gregory, the smile passing from his face.
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