Word: bumptiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against these achievements are the undoubted facts that the Mayor is spending no less money than his Tammany predecessors, that he is head of the Mayors' lobby which is expert in raiding the Federal Treasury, that he is a fat little bumptious character, clowning and screaming dictatorially, posing for pictures in chef's hats, fireman's hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy...
...face of these facts, Mitchel Field's airmen were hard put to it to explain Mrs. Kramer's indictment. Some saw a glimmer of significance in the fact that the letter was printed as an exclusive story by Newsday, a bumptious local daily. Editor of Newsday is Alicia Patterson (Mrs. Harry Guggenheim) daughter of Captain Joseph Patterson, isolationist owner of the great New York Daily News...
...main drive (see map) bogged a bit. Beyond dreary Minsk with its old Polish manor houses made over into collective-farm headquarters, beyond the White Russian villages with their bumptious names (They've Caught Fire, It Didn't Rain, Big Blockhead, etc.), the going got tougher. The initial Nazi torrent, catching the Russians with their rubbers off, had swept ahead breathtakingly. But in the second week it began to look as if that early ease had been misleading. The Germans came up against a tough natural line at the Berezina River where Napoleon caught hell on his return...
...death left the Administration up a pair of trees. By seniority, North Carolina's bumptious isolationist, "Roaring Robert" Reynolds, is entitled to become chairman of the Military Affairs Committee. Elegant Mr. Reynolds is known to the public as a legislator who fought to delay conscription, to kill the Lend-Lease Bill, and against repeal of the arms embargo...
Said brash Bill Lear: "Many were the times I had my ears pinned back." First to pin them was Grigsby-Grunow Co., shortly after he had hit on the idea of adapting to radio the dynamic speaker, which launched the Majestic radio. Grigsby stock boomed, but bumptious Engineer Lear had been fired. Disappointed, he drifted until 1929, then on his own introduced the Motorola (first practical commercial radio for automobiles). Two years later he got interested in airplane radio, began to find his stride...