Word: bumptiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, bumptious, brilliant Jacob Epstein unbared his new Lucifer (see cut) which looked something like a winged cigar-store Indian. It was less likely than his prodigiously progenitorial Adam to be exhibited by others for a cheap pornographic thrill (TIME, April 29, 1940). Lucifer had been modeled in clay, then cast in bronze, possessed the refined detail peculiar to modeled figures...
...even smelled of politics. Welland, site of the Page-Hersey factory, is a politically important riding represented in Parliament by Canada's Labor Minister, bumptious Humphrey Mitchell...
Last week the usually bumptious O'Donnell column was strangely becalmed. He confessed: "On the evidence, our statements in Capitol Stuff were untrue. We regret having made them...
Soon a familiar and unmistakable figure among New Deal Turks young & old. "Prich" had even the most bumptious of them aghast at his energy and his good-natured brass. On any point in economics, politics, history, the law or cocktail-mixing, an opinion from "Prich" came down with the crashing finality of a round from a 16-inch naval gun. No doubts assailed...
...Apristas),* which appeals to the Indian masses of Peru. One probable result of Bustamante's election would be a new deal for the Indians. General Ureta's defeat would be excellent news for Chile, Colombia and Ecuador, which have long worried about the aggressive designs of the bumptious Peruvian Army...