Word: bumptious
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...indeed, a torrid jungle and mountain wilderness as big as California. Sparsely inhabited by fuzzy-wuzzy Melanesian cannibals and practically unexploited, it has been a Dutch colony the past 122 years. Last week Irian was also a hot focus of argument between its Dutch rulers and the bumptious young Republic of Indonesia...
...reactionary," "anti-labor," and had also been known to take a drink. "He'd be wasting his time trying to win our support," said one C.I.O. official. Former ECA "subordinates" who knew him when he was ECA administrator in The Netherlands spread the word that he was vituperative, bumptious, inflexible and prejudiced. "A brilliant fellow but a little kinky," said a former associate. "He's right robust with his own opinions." Even the Wall Street Journal, which claimed him as "business-minded," noted that "Rochester students consider Valentine a 'stuffy' prexy. Newspapermen have found him irascible...
Pittsburgh-born Enroll Garner, playing trademark tunes such as When Johnny Comes Marching Home and My Heart Stood Still, displays a lot of chordy harmonic curiosity, with occasional lapses into his running-waterfall style. Bumptious Joe Bushkin, the flashiest current craze (see above), plays with steadier rhythm and a harder, right-handed riffing style. The only woman in the list so far, Dardanelle (Breckenridge), shows a light, teasing touch, articulate phrasing. Ralph Sutton, a favorite at Greenwich Village's Eddie Condon's, bumps out Ain't Mishavin', Muskat Ramble and Deep Henderson in two-beat...
...spite of a pat, oversweet ending that leaves the hero with cheers ringing in his ears and a girl swinging on his arm, Eye Witness, with its sly spoofing of stuffy British and bumptious American manners, is pretty good...
This week, with a new season about to begin, there were only 13 shows in Broadway's 30 playhouses, and all but one (Mike Todd's bosomy, bumptious Peep Show) were holdover hits from past seasons. During the summer, television networks had gobbled up three more legitimate theaters (making 16 to date). Production costs were skyrocket-high. Producers bemoaned the lack of new playwrights, and looked in vain for the open-handed angels of only a few years...