Word: bumptiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bumptious Geologist Kirtley Fletcher Mather had been speaking on "The Twilight of Democracy" at the opening of an adult education centre. Among the adults present was Representative Thomas Dorgan, author of the Massachusetts teachers' oath law. In the course of a hot plat-form-to-floor argument, Professor Mather called the law unconstitutional, stoutly announced he would sign no oath. By the time Dr. Conant reached Cambridge, Professor Mather and a quickly rallied bloc of the faculty were champing to carry the case to the Supreme Court...
...Bumptious Amadeo Barletta, who is also General Motors' sales manager in the Republic, had broken Trujillo's tobacco monopoly with a U. S.-controlled company. Month ago Trujillo lost patience. He charged Barletta with conspiring to assassinate him, clapped Barletta into jail, canceled his consular credentials by decree, passed a law confiscating the property of conspirators and, though the Dominican Constitution forbids retroactive laws, confiscated Barletta's Dominican Tobacco Co. He also confiscated an automobile of Barletta's, gave it to his Chief of Police...
With the indictment of 16 ringleaders (including a bumptious young white radical from nearby College of the City of New York) for assault, burglary and incitement to riot, Tammanyite District Attorney William C. Dodge loudly attributed the whole affair to a Communist plot, started a grand jury investigation. Negro Communist Solomon Harper, War veteran, inventor and member of the radical League of Struggle for Negro Rights, absolved his organization of complicity, denied any connection with the Young Liberators whose members, he said, were all in their ''early twenties...
...blatant electioneering swing around Ontario that made him its first Liberal Premier in 30 years, grinning, bumptious, New-Dealing Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn bawled at farmers in the back concessions: "You have had to put up with Conservative tea-sippers and cookie-pushers! Men who couldn't run the Province of Ontario except from flashy motor cars paid for with your money! By Jupiter, when I'm Premier I'll ride to the opening of the Legislature of Ontario on a bicycle!" (TIME, July 2). Last week the people's "Mitch" in spats, cutaway...
...military plans for the next year had already been mapped out. In spite of the frightful failure of the Somme offensive, they called for further massed attacks on the German Western Front. Lloyd George strenuously opposed the plan, favored a surprise attack on the Italian front. Overruled as a bumptious layman, he says, he proceeded to do everything he could to make the 1917 offensives (Chemin des Dame:, Passchendaele) a howling success. Though he is hurt that "the whole responsibility for the Nivelle offensive" should be fastened on him, he admits he was enthusiastic about it once...