Word: bumptiousness
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...Canada's capital by a squad of mounted police in scarlet tunics, the Hulls lunched with Governor-General Tweedsmuir at Government House, began a two-day round of official entertainments. From Ottawa, Prime Minister King accompanied them to Toronto, where Secretary Hull called on Ontario's bumptious Premier, Mitchell Hepburn. The extra-social purpose of Cordell Hull's visit was first indicated at a luncheon where he and Mackenzie King discussed what Mr. Hull called the "preservation of peace." A few hours later Mr. Hull, escorted to the University's Convocation Hall by Governor-General Tweedsmuir...
...Most bumptious reaction came from the American Booksellers Association, still glowing from Doubleday, Doran's triumph over Macy's in the court battle on New York's Fair Trade Act (TIME. March 22). In solemn glee A. B. A.'s Counsel Crichton Clarke called a stenographer, dictated a statement pointing out that no stores in Macy's own trading area would be favored with the new service. "Macy's does not care how much its private brands are cut in other markets," said Mr. Clarke, "but it will not permit them...
...these companies' investments and other assets are held at their headquarters in Philadelphia. Protesting that they were mortally threatened, the life insurance companies talked of moving to suburban Ardmore or Bryn Mawr, launched against the tax a high-pressure campaign seldom equalled in Philadelphia except by the bumptious mayor himself (TIME...
Prodigious Ruth, not half so bumptious as she looks, sees music simply. Her first heavy chord is impressively crashing in Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique but to her it is just Beethoven's father yelling "Get up !" to the boy whose practicing started at dawn. Father Slenczynski teaches young Ruth to say her prayers religiously. Be fore her conventional blessings, she asks God always "please, to make me the world's greatest pianist." Father Slenczynski thinks God has already answered his daughter's prayer...
...Canada's west coast is the Dominion's biggest year round seaport and third biggest city with a corporate history going back only half a century. To celebrate Vancouver's 50th anniversary this year is the job of its big, shrewd, bumptious Mayor Gerald Gratton ("Gerry") McGeer. An Irish Protestant lawyer and one-time iron molder, Mayor McGeer's pet plan for Vancouver is to push it into bankruptcy to reduce interest charges. Says he: "People think they can climb into Heaven with a Bible in one hand and a foreclosure in the other. .. . The boys...