MOTLEY NOTES: A Pat in the Pants
... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. A Pat in the Pants. Boasting is one of the infantile vices which most of us learn to discard in our early teens, if not in the nursery. A small boy who struts and swaggers soon discovers that his pride is apt to take a very bad toss. If he is nicely brought up he also learns that, in England at least, vaunting and vainglory are among the worst possible sins of bad ...