Word: bumptiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barrymore's burlesque of himself proved more bumpy than bumptious, his ad libs flabbier than flip. But he did let go a few Royal Family burps, and enough offside lines to indicate that this Jerry Horwin-Catherine Turney farce might yet be "good theatre," with old John really strutting his stuff...
...creation of a Defense Ministry-with the Army, Navy and Air Force all subordinate to one able go-getter. This might be a good idea. But coming from Hore-Belisha, who so obviously thought himself the man for the job, it struck the British Cabinet as insufferably bumptious...