Word: bumptiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prodigious Ruth, not half so bumptious as she looks, sees music simply. Her first heavy chord is impressively crashing in Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique but to her it is just Beethoven's father yelling "Get up !" to the boy whose practicing started at dawn. Father Slenczynski teaches young Ruth to say her prayers religiously. Be fore her conventional blessings, she asks God always "please, to make me the world's greatest pianist." Father Slenczynski thinks God has already answered his daughter's prayer...
...Canada's west coast is the Dominion's biggest year round seaport and third biggest city with a corporate history going back only half a century. To celebrate Vancouver's 50th anniversary this year is the job of its big, shrewd, bumptious Mayor Gerald Gratton ("Gerry") McGeer. An Irish Protestant lawyer and one-time iron molder, Mayor McGeer's pet plan for Vancouver is to push it into bankruptcy to reduce interest charges. Says he: "People think they can climb into Heaven with a Bible in one hand and a foreclosure in the other. .. . The boys...
...such laws against Jim Crowism. Pennsylvania got one when Democratic Governor Earle took office (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). But nowhere, as most intelligent Negroes admit, art: such laws consistently enforced against the strong but silent sentiment of the White majority opposed to close social contact with Blacks. When a bumptious blackamoor attempts to invoke such a statute, he generally gets more publicity than social satisfaction...
...recommendation to "investigate moral and social conditions as they affect Southern Baptist life." Said a "messenger" (delegate) : "We don't want any of that Communistic business in this convention." Fellowship Meetings. An odd liaison between the Northern and Southern conventions appeared in St. Louis in the loud-voiced, bumptious person of Rev. John Franklyn ("J. Frank") Norris, famed Texas evangelist who is nominal pastor of 12,000 Baptists in Fort Worth, actual shepherd of a flock of 5,000 in Detroit (TIME, Jan. 14, 1935). Baptist Norris got his Fort Worth church to pay the necessary $250 fee, armed...
...Conservative-controlled delegation to the Republican convention at Cleveland. As nominal head of this slate they picked Earl Warren, district attorney of Aiameda County and Republican State Chairman. A steering committee of 21, a slate of 44 delegates, were named to promote this "free ticket" of "uninstructed" delegates. Two bumptious persons were given no representation in the movement. One was California's Governor Frank Merriam. The other was Publisher William Randolph Hearst...