Word: bumptiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between Poet Robinson and Poets Spender and Auden lies the gulf of the War. Much murmured of late by the literati, these two new names were last fortnight introduced to a U. S. audience. Tories in their own country (England) have already damned them as bumptious poetasters. To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible. But youthful amateurs of poetry will con them with interest, sometimes with enthusiasm. Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly...
...Author. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 70 last January, still writes like a woman a generation younger. Born a Manhattan socialite, tutored abroad, summered at Newport, she overcame her early handicaps and became a surprisingly serious novelist. Her novelette Ethan Frame is still spoken of respectfully by bumptious younger critics. Though she has lived in France since 1906, her books have been stanchly U. S. products, except for a pro-French interlude during the War. By her juniors she is rated respectfully as an old lady writer of surprising youth, surprising up-to-date notions. Among her many books: The House...
...sunny day last week police clubs whacked about bumptious heads on the streets of New Orleans. At Hammond, 42 mi. away, three men shot out a political argument; the loser was killed, the winners wounded. In Jefferson Parish shotguns bristled about a barn where citizens were forced to "vote right or else?" behind transparent cheesecloth. Louisiana was holding a Democratic primary which was equivalent to a regular election...
...Treasury Secretaries have owned stock without violating the statute. Mr. Mellon personally owns no sea vessel. He never passes on tax refunds. He was allowed a refund of $91.000 on his taxes but was also assessed an additional $209,000. making a net tax loss of $118,000. A bumptious Treasury employe once labeled papers relating to Aluminum Corp.: "This is a Mellon company." Superior officers immediately ordered off the label. Mr. Mellon never mentioned the Barco concession to President-elect Olaya...
This robust biography would have pleased its robust subject. It is written to the Roosevelt formula of history: "The exact truth . . . our disasters and shortcomings as well as our triumphs." Without too finicky mental analysis Biographer Pringle has painted the bouncing, bubbling, sometimes bumptious career of "Teddy'' (he loathed that nickname)? the sickly child who messed around with dead frogs; the dudish State legislator who "rose like a rocket"; the Civil Service Commissioner who warred with Postmaster General John Wanamaker on the spoils system; the New York City Police Commissioner who brought the town down about his ears...