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...SHOW-OFF-A naturalistic satirical study of the sort of bumptious young man who continually finds they're all out of step...
...SHOW-OFF?A naturalistic, satirical study of the sort of bumptious young man who continually finds they're all out of step...
...turns arbitrarily. It can be summed up thus: Five bachelors who adopt eight war orphans-one of them a grown girl (Mae Marsh)- are equal to one love affair, plus a dozen spankings. This being the era of the child on the screen, audiences laugh incessantly at the bumptious brats before licking their...
...Southerner, but long years in the Middle West have quite obliterated any trace of a Southern accent. He attended Hamilton College?this he holds a bond in common with Alexander Woollcott, the increasingly weighty dramatic critic of The New York Herald. As a bitter and somewhat bumptious critic Mr. Weaver made his early reputation on the Chicago Daily News. His columns in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle have been characterized by fearless honesty and a remarkable freshness of expression. Certain of his critics have intimated that Mr. Weaver was and is the only extant member of the so-called "Younger Generation...
There followed 15 rounds of mauling with Dundee doing none of his usual bumptious fighting. The fans and the journalists watching could credit Dundee with at most only three victorious rounds, the last three, and possibly two other rounds drawn. The judges brought in a decision favoring Dundee. There was blank astonishment. Then a chorus of hoots and denunciations shook the building...