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...potentially amorous Freshmen is a needless irritant. At best, the chaperon system acts as a front to comfort parents worried about the intoxicating effect of almost unlimited freedom on their sons. At worst, it simply lingers as an obsolete carry, over from the old arrangement that held the bumptious Freshman in his "proper" place. Surely any such prep-schoolish requirement--that two "disinterested observers" oversee the activities of one couple--should follow having and beanies into oblivion...
Married. Amon G. Carter, 68, bumptious, oil-rich publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; and Minnie Meacham Smith, 45, Fort Worth department-store heiress; he for the third time, she for the second; in Fort Worth...
Germans did not seem inspired to cooperation by the creation of Bizonia. Recently, at a party rally, bumptious demagogic Social Democrat Kurt Schumacher had shouted: "We Germans don't want to sell ourselves to either side, not for the Potemkin promises of Marshal Zhukov nor for the CARE packages from America." Apparently the Germans were not yet ready to contribute anything to the future of Europe except hard words and the hope that they might translate U.S.-Russian division into German nationalist advantage...
Randolph Churchill, Winston's bumptious lecturer-son, got in more trouble with his new Lincoln. Last fortnight a wheel had come off while he was doing 50 in Indiana. This time the trouble was in Connecticut. He got a parking ticket; but that was fixed when it was discovered who he was-a guest of the city of Derby. Then he shot off toward Manhattan. A state trooper, who said it had taken him eight miles to catch up, stopped Randolph outside Westport, pinched him for doing 80. Trial...
Psychiatry rushed into World War II as a bumptious big-talking rookie, then turned out to be the Sad Sack of military medicine. This is the verdict of two ex-majors among the 2,400 psychiatrists who served in the U.S. Army...