Word: bumptious
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...sends the balcony audience into the rafters. Ruth Homond, a winsome lass when she removes her horn-rimmed glasses--and you know she will--is a well-bred Pegeen Mike to the predatory "playboy," suffering only the occupational disease of being adequate. William Mendrek is a figure of bumptious incompetence as the casual prig who, in a poor imitation of a young English squire, half-heartedly tries for and loses the girl. This summation leaves three leftovers: a detective and two maids. The former has, if nothing more, an almost valid English accent; the younger of the latter two proves...
...bumptious James Caesar Petrillo, exigent czar of U.S. musicians, it was a week of unparalleled tributes. From Toledo came flattering news: somebody was going around representing himself as Petrillo. In Hollywood, movie magnates cheerfully upped his studio musicians' pay by 33% (previous annual wage: $5,200), agreed to a 44% increase in the number of regularly employed musicians. From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Nicholas Schenck came the most gracious accolade of all: "We had a very lovely and friendly three weeks of negotiation...
Then, at their closing session, UNRRA delegates got a shot of hope & vigor from their new Director General-bumptious, bell-bottomed Fiorello H. LaGuardia...
Thomas from his presidential swivel chair. Thomas had the support of U.A.W.'s Communists (not that they loved Thomas so much as that they hated Reuther more), of Secretary-Treasurer George Addes, of everyone else who disliked or feared bumptious, ambitious Walter Reuther...
Elliott Roosevelt planned a U.S. lecture tour, and Winston Churchill's bumptious son Randolph reportedly had the same idea. (A possible brothers-under-the-skin act nobody would talk about: a debate between the two.) But first Elliott had to finish writing a book. It was about his father's role in world affairs, and "the story of my father's thinking...