Word: bumptiousness
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...where he worked toward his philosophy doctorate. Not until he got it, apparently, did Harry Dexter White become proud of his record. The listing he prepared for Who's Who starts with the Harvard degree, ignoring all of his life before that. He is remembered as a brilliant, bumptious student and instructor at Harvard, assertive and quick to argue. After he got his doctorate in 1930, he continued teaching economics at Harvard and also taught at Boston's Simmons College. But he felt he was not going any place at Harvard, and he could find no other teaching...
...Eddie was one of London's luminaries. He was theatergoer No. 1, a patron of such young poets as Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Bridges, and Walter de la Mare. He took it upon himself to correct George Bernard Shaw's pronunciation and got called "a bumptious novice" for his pains, tidied up Ezra Pound's Greek, played charades with Playwright James M. Barrie. Between 1912 and 1925 he edited and published six volumes of poetry to help his young poet friends get started...
Yale, bustling, bumptious, and barely holding on to its Pentagonal League lead, moves into the Boston Arena tonight for the first game in what should be a toss-up hockey series...
Newbold Morris, an irrepressible reformer from the ranks of Manhattan's silk-stocking Republicans, tripped down to Washington last February, all aglow. On the invitation of the Administration, he was going to investigate corruption in the Administration. Last week, as Morris and his bumptious crusade came to a crashing end, it could not be said that the outcome was really a surprise to those who knew Newbold Morris and the chiefs of the Administration. But it was a spectacle, part political farce and part national humiliation, that Washington would remember. Morris launched his inquiry in his own inimitable style...
...Duchamp brothers. After a dozen years as modern art's No. 1 bad boy, in 1923 he gave up such experiments as his stroboscopic Nude Descending a Staircase in favor of chess, has scarcely touched a brush to canvas since. Last week, along with witty reminders of his bumptious youth, he displayed his first artistic creation in 15 years, a tiny pencil drawing of a chessman. Said Marcel, who lives in Manhattan: "I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art-and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than...