Word: bumptiousness
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With the indictment of 16 ringleaders (including a bumptious young white radical from nearby College of the City of New York) for assault, burglary and incitement to riot, Tammanyite District Attorney William C. Dodge loudly attributed the whole affair to a Communist plot, started a grand jury investigation. Negro Communist Solomon Harper, War veteran, inventor and member of the radical League of Struggle for Negro Rights, absolved his organization of complicity, denied any connection with the Young Liberators whose members, he said, were all in their ''early twenties...
...blatant electioneering swing around Ontario that made him its first Liberal Premier in 30 years, grinning, bumptious, New-Dealing Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn bawled at farmers in the back concessions: "You have had to put up with Conservative tea-sippers and cookie-pushers! Men who couldn't run the Province of Ontario except from flashy motor cars paid for with your money! By Jupiter, when I'm Premier I'll ride to the opening of the Legislature of Ontario on a bicycle!" (TIME, July 2). Last week the people's "Mitch" in spats, cutaway...
...military plans for the next year had already been mapped out. In spite of the frightful failure of the Somme offensive, they called for further massed attacks on the German Western Front. Lloyd George strenuously opposed the plan, favored a surprise attack on the Italian front. Overruled as a bumptious layman, he says, he proceeded to do everything he could to make the 1917 offensives (Chemin des Dame:, Passchendaele) a howling success. Though he is hurt that "the whole responsibility for the Nivelle offensive" should be fastened on him, he admits he was enthusiastic about it once...
Between Poet Robinson and Poets Spender and Auden lies the gulf of the War. Much murmured of late by the literati, these two new names were last fortnight introduced to a U. S. audience. Tories in their own country (England) have already damned them as bumptious poetasters. To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible. But youthful amateurs of poetry will con them with interest, sometimes with enthusiasm. Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly...
...Author. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 70 last January, still writes like a woman a generation younger. Born a Manhattan socialite, tutored abroad, summered at Newport, she overcame her early handicaps and became a surprisingly serious novelist. Her novelette Ethan Frame is still spoken of respectfully by bumptious younger critics. Though she has lived in France since 1906, her books have been stanchly U. S. products, except for a pro-French interlude during the War. By her juniors she is rated respectfully as an old lady writer of surprising youth, surprising up-to-date notions. Among her many books: The House...