Word: bumptiousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were a big enough man to tell the story straight, it would be all right. But he fixes up a little city of Zenith, or whatever you call it, and has a little Rotary Club, and tells everybody that a Rotary Club is a bunch of big, bumptious, small-town boosters .... Of course there is in every Rotary Club a spirit of good fellowship and a lively interest in any proposition that is for the common good. . . The basis is a need for something to bring big business men together in a way that no other organization can, to enable...
...editorially attacking the President for backing down on the Warren nomination, saying the President had been right in that. Senator Stanchfield of Oregon, with a pile of manuscript, began to read a speech about "homeowning banks," but he skipped a good bit of it. Cole Blease, the new and bumptious Senator from South Carolina, asked unanimous consent to insert remarks in the record. Mr. Curtis objected, so Mr. Blease began to read his remarks, telling why he did not think Democrats should let Republicans make Committee assignments because the latter have a majority. He read for a few minutes...
...mission on his shoulders-a mission as strange and solemn as any that man has shouldered. Others of his fellow-adventurers on the secret Middle Way were Dawa Tserin, intricately-wedded hillsman with the mind of a child and the saw-edge knife; Diana, epitome of canine sagacity; Maitraya, bumptious actor...
...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...