Word: bumptiousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO I FEEL YOUR MAGAZINE HAS DONE AN INJUSTICE TO ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPERMEN OF THE WEST, PAUL SMITH, EDITOR OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, IN YOUR JULY 29 ISSUE. YOU REFER TO HIM AS A "BUMPTIOUS YOUNG EDITOR." WE OF SAN FRANCISCO AGREE THAT HE IS YOUNG BUT DISAGREE THAT HE IS BUMPTIOUS...
...Colorado Rockies (from Central City, where he attended a frontier music festival, to Denver, where he chinned with stockmen and sugar-beet growers). He puttered around the International Typographical Union's stock farm, chumming up to Holstein-Friesian cattle. He chatted with the San Francisco Chronicle's bumptious young Editor Paul Smith. He talked campaign strategy with Colorado's Governor Carr, Iowa's farm-minded Governor Wilson, National Chairman Joe Martin (by telephone). One night 350 tourists, mostly teachers and young professionals, raised so much we-want-Willkie that their hero had to leave his sixth...
...when he joined the Cardinals, U. S. sportswriters yipped with glee. A bumptious bumpkin, he was vague about his name (sometimes it was Jerome Her man Dean, sometimes Jay Hanna Dean) and his birthplace (either Texas or Oklahoma). But he was crystal clear about the fact that "Me'n' Paul" (his younger brother who joined the Cardinals two years later) were the two best pitchers south of the North Pole. In 1934 he boasted that "Me'n' Paul" together would win 45 games for the Cardinals (they...
Moreover he got a hustler to fill it: a bumptious, result-getting, self-made man, Baron Beaverbrook, the impish...