Word: bumptiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican ticket, State Senator Robert Hendrickson, with the lukewarm backing of a Clean Government bloc, is running for Governor against bouncing, bumptious ex-Governor Harold Hoffman, one of the minor phenomena of Jersey politics. Reviled, threatened with impeachment, pronounced politically dead after his meddling with the Hauptmann case, bullocky Mr. Hoffman is friskier than ever. He counters the charge that he is a Hague Republican with the retort: "I like Hague as much as Haig & Haig. I take both of them when I want them but neither is my master." Most discouraging of all to Pastor Clee and the Clean...
No.1 composer of Brazil is hardworking, talkative, frantic Heitor Villa-Lobos. whose bumptious exuberance has turned him into a one-man national musical movement (TIME, Feb. 5). Villa-Lobos wants to give Brazil a folk music. One day he gazed out of his office window in Rio de Janeiro. He gasped. "There," he exclaimed, "was my music, my inspiration. There was the Corcovado, the Sugar Loaf, waiting these millions of years for someone capable of reading and expressing the music of their unique lines. I had found the source of my new, truly Brazilian folklore, without needing...
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has had bad luck with Cabinet Ministers whose Christian names are Leslie. Early this year War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha became such a bumptious headache that Mr. Chamberlain dismissed him. By last week Minister of Supply Leslie Burgin had caused so much trouble for the Government that London's censor-controlled newspapers suggested that the Prime Minister had better get rid of this Leslie...
...because "you can't make love in a noisy place"; 2) because "improvision [sic] could never last. There isn't enough permanence to it. We have now," says he, "reached the double-entendre era." Rivals in the record business regard Eli Oberstein as a bumptious upstart. But to U. S. Records he is Mr. Big. Says he: "Everybody who is working with me loves...
Federal Unionists, scoffs Wells, are too tame, too "hopelessly optimistic." But except for Wells' more bumptious language, his "Western Revolution" (led by "a sufficient number of minds throughout the world . . .") is considerably vaguer than Clarence Streit...