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Henry D. Perky was not a "dyspeptic lawyer." His invention of shredded wheat occurred about fifteen years after he left the practice of law. He did not "peddle his biscuits in baskets" (bumptious bunk!) either in Nebraska, which he left about 1879, or in Denver, where, in 1893, he was, as always, dignified and rather magnificent. If those who have been trying to make his story sell biscuits had first taken the obvious step of looking up the history of this one of our most characteristically vital Americans, they could have undoubtedly made valuable copy and sold more biscuits...
Caprice. "Life is so much easier," says the dyspeptic but incorrigibly playful Albert Von Echardt, "when you have a great many ties to choose from." He communicated this illuminating morsel of information to his bastard son, poetic and bumptious youth of 16, whom he was meeting for the first time. Albert had in fact been unaware of his child's existence until its mother, a somewhat charming though intensely idealistic creature, whom he had once betrayed and since forgotten, visited him. The purpose of her visit was to ask that Robert be permitted to live with his father...
...jurists were not presuming, bumptious. They had every right and every reason to see Sphinx-President Irigoyen. The previous President of Argentina, Dr. Marcelo T. de Alvear, had appointed them Delegates to the Pan-American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation which convenes in Washington on Dec. 10, 1928. Before leaving for Washington-and time was getting short-the Delegates must receive instructions from the Argentine Government as to what to do and say in Washington...
Governor-elect Roosevelt did not betray his consciousness of any of these things, not only because it would have been bumptious to do so but also because all was contingent upon two things-his health and his record as New York's Governor...
...Mack or Sergeant Michael Devlin as he is called in the play-bill, was a fussy and bumptious redcoat, though shrewd, daring and romantic withal. He was making love to dope flend's little sister as the curtain fell after all the villians were on their way to the gallows. "The Scarlet Fox," excepting several ridiculous moments of April-fooling, is a pretty fair cock-and-bull dream. In it you may enjoy some unbelievably veracious acting by Miss Marie Chambers as the chatelaine of a Canadian bagnlo; by Mr. Sam Lee, as a canny Chinaman, and by Mr. Sweeney...