Word: cockiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the Yard dressed in finery like the cockiest London beau to see the carriages, chaires, and omnibuses of all description trundling into the village. Would seem the throng number over a thousand spectators. Now came C. Austin, Jr., all abubble, and with him on past the gate to watch the festivities. Saw Mr. Emery of Philadelphia, the oldest graduate present, looking very touched yet happy at the affair...
...onetime boy-prodigy, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., has been the cockiest and brainiest of the Roosevelt brain trust. He accepted, last week, the office of City Chamberlain on condition that the office eventually be abolished and that its salary meanwhile be curtailed. Mr. Berle has a teaching job at Columbia, a private law practice, is in demand as an author of newspaper articles and must be available for duty at the White House as well as at City Hall...
...cockiest picklock in the U. S. last week signed a Europe-bound steamship's register: Charles Courtney, New York. N. Y., master locksmith, founder-president of the American Association of Master Locksmiths. His errand was to pick open some treasure chests plucked from Davy Jones's lockerby whom he would not say, from where he could not say. His cautious employers had merely supplied him expense money and instructions to have his passport visaed for England, France and Germany. When his ship neared Europe he would receive wireless orders for debarkation. The chests he was to open might...