Word: bumptiously
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...drive taxis or serve as waiters to keep alive, Philip's life was clothed in comfortable, if slightly shabby, respectability, kept crisp with starch by a stern British nanny named Miss Roose. Nanny Roose taught him English as his first language, saw to it that her bumptious charge stayed clean and neat, that he responded with gracious dignity when addressed as "Your Royal Highness," and that his royal bottom never wanted for a good sound spanking when the rules were infringed...
...charge of the lay organization Serov put a bumptious, indestructible gangster named Boleslaw Piasecki. Piasecki had worked as an agent for Mussolini, later for the Gestapo; when he was picked up by the NKVD, he eagerly ratted on his associates, most of whom were promptly liquidated. But nervous Boleslaw, casting about for further life insurance, landed in Pax-officially called the Social Radical Movement of Polish Catholics. The organization had the monopoly on religious publishing, plus the manufacture and sale of all religious articles. The resulting flow of cash provided Piasecki with a luxurious villa, where he kept a Jaguar...
...offbeat political notions, have been content to alternate their government more or less regularly between the Conservatives, who took over after Confederation in 1867, and the Liberals, who have ruled the country since 1935. With a general election set for June 10. the two major parties now face a bumptious challenge from Western Canada. From their stronghold in Alberta and British Columbia, the Social Credit Party's high command swept into Toronto last week for a national convention launching their first serious bid for national influence...
...Assemblywoman Florence Dwyer, fiftyish, took away from personable, 36-year-old Democrat Harrison Williams Jr. the seat he has held since 1953. Even more startling were the results in traditionally Democratic Hudson County, whose two House seats the Democrats had considered money in the bank. In the 14th District, bumptious Democrat T. (for Thomas) James Tumulty, whose boast it was that he carried more weight (330 Ibs.) than any man in Congress, ran well behind 49-year-old Auditor Vincent J. null In the 13th District, 45-year-old Major Alfred Sieminski, a Princeton-educated laundry operator who was elected...
...factors in Hoegh's situation range all the way from the ridiculous to the fundamental. Some lowans are against Hoegh because a bumptious, publicity-seeking television performer named Dagmar once bulged through his outer office, bussed the governor and then loped on up to the legislature, where she darned near kissed a quorum. Others are against him on the basic issue that he has raised taxes. Some farmers oppose him because they do not like the Eisenhower Administration's farm program; some Republicans are displeased because of his feelings toward Secretary Benson. And some of the plain, quiet...