Word: exhibitionistic
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...Last fortnight the first full-length biography of Ole Bull was published by his granddaughter's husband, Mortimer Smith of Sandy Hook, Conn. (The Life of Ole Bull; Princeton University Press for the American-Scandinavian Foundation; $3). It is a fine, factual account of a large-gestured exhibitionist...
...Churchill. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
...They tell all: the evolution of the amusement parks, side shows, steeplechases, sly games to trap sucker money; the fortunes made and lost by Coney financiers ; the fires that periodically gutted the wooden jungles, during one of which lions ran in the streets with manes on fire; a female exhibitionist who smoked cigars "in a peculiar manner"; a sailor who took his girl through the darkened Old Mill ride and emerged without his pants...
...memory of the time Percy Sr. ran against Demagogue James K. Vardaman for the U. S. Senate. Vardaman, who looked "like a top-notch medicine man," stood for the poor white against the "nigger." "He was not a moral idiot of genius like Huey Long; he was merely an exhibitionist playing with fire." When Percy Sr. won, they tried to pin a bribery charge on him. It was quickly disproved, but the man who made the charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless. . . . The people loved...
...seems a shame that these exhibitionist tendencies of a very weak minority of sensation-loving college men--utilizing as they do hackneyed and worn-out means of expression--should cause any indignation to people of a college community. This small minority will always exist in any large group, but there is no reason to infer that a majority or any semblance of a majority within the University takes stock in this horse-play...