Word: bumptiousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Paul Douglas, 52, sometime professional football player and radio announcer turned actor, who vaulted to Hollywood stardom (A Letter to Three Wives, Executive Suite) through his Broadway portrayal of the bumptious racketeer in Born Yesterday; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...diplomats and foreign aidsters in Asian countries), has something new to worry about. Universal-International is planning to film the book in Thailand, and harried ICA pressmen can already visualize reaction of worldwide movie audiences to an almond-eyed Elizabeth Taylor or Kim Novak being pushed around by a bumptious young U.S. foreign aid boy abroad, a banality-mouthing U.S. Senator in Asia, or a potty U.S. ambassador. The moviemakers are asking for State Department cooperation, and ICA is opposed...
...this point a rotund shape loomed on the horizon. It was that of Sir Winston Churchill's bumptious son Randolph, 47, cheerily announcing his willingness to be of help: "I have always wanted to be a member of Parliament. I think my upbringing and varied experience of life entitle me to suppose without presumption that I have some useful contributions to make...
Plenty of men and women come to Broadway bearing checkbooks. Bumptious or diffident, they hover on the fringe for a season or two. They go over the bumps and to the cleaners and back to their natural habitat, taking with them some deductible losses and dinner conversation. Roger Stevens
...note that the words "bumptious young Americans" are used to describe those who founded the Paris Review [Aug. 11]. If the word bumptious is to be interpreted as "offensively self-assertive," it might better be applied to those who had whatever hand in producing this particular story. The Review was founded by Harold L. Humes and Peter Matthiessen, the author of two novels and many notable short stories. The first two recruits were George A. Plimpton and Thomas H. Guinzburg...