Word: bumptiousness
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Announced the Nazis' Brussels radio: "The Strength Through Joy movement will celebrate its tenth anniversary today with a dancing festival in Berlin." Unhappily for bumptious, bottle-worn Robert Ley, the tenth anniversary of his beloved movement coincided with Berlin's blitz (see p. 30). Undaunted, the Labor Front leader took to the radio. Said he: "There is one particular thought that could drive me crazy-the thought that these war criminals of London, Washington and Moscow hinder...
Leonide Massine. Diaghilev alumnus, specialist in grotesque character dancing, creator of some 40 successful ballets, now with the Ballet Theatre. A decade ago Massine churned an esthetic storm with his ambitious, often impenetrably symbolic ballets. Since then he has reverted to the bumptious, exuberant, satirical style of his most admired works (Gaité Parisienne, Three-Cornered Hat, La Boutique Fantasque, Mademoiselle Angot...
...many a dub of long standing has plucked up interest. Checker sales are ballooning. And the crusty, generally introverted old men of checkers who have long pored over the game that few understood, now have company and competition in the new recruits who talk familiarly of Millard Hopper and bumptious Willie Ryan...
...looked to his military "eyes." The eyes, better known as Brigadier General Patrick J. Hurley, the President now recalled from the post of Minister to New Zealand. He assigned General Hurley as a "utility man" in the Middle East. Next he prepared to send New York City's bumptious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia overseas, presumably as a brigadier general (see p. 12) to North Africa...
...only woman opera impresario in the world last week launched the freshest, most bumptious U.S. opera troupe on its second Manhattan season. The impresario is Hungarian-born Yolanda Mero-lrion of the youthful New Opera Company. For openers, Impresario Irion chose The Opera Cloak, Walter Damrosch's latest one-acter, and The Fair at Sorochinsk, a rollicking opus by Russia's rum-nosed Immortal, Modeste Moussorgsky. Eighty-year-old Composer Damrosch conducted his curtain raiser without drowning out the audience's spirited conversation. But for The Fair at Sorochinsk, they sat up, shut up and pounded their...