Word: show-off
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...SHOW-OFF ? Glorifying the great American loud speaker. You all know him ?the man who talks so loudly and so long he has no time for toil...
...SHOW-OFF−One of the best comedies of this or any other season−a life-size pastel portrait of a gabby American at full blast...
...SHOW-OFF ? A penetratingly faithful and intrinsically amusing dissection of a modern loud speaker...
...Show-Off. The glib title character is known to all of us, is part of most of us. So intent is he on making a good impression that he generally creates a bad one. He does not realize that people would concede him something in return for a larger concession of silence by him. He buys a $28 overcoat on a $32 salary, sweeps a girl off into matrimony in spite of her family, brings her back to live with her mother, penniless, in the same grand manner...
...gash on the brow for the showoff, one fine of $1,000 for his relatives to pay. "That's the law for you!" he comments. Reverses of fortune and a good lecture from a sister-in-law render him unabashed. At the end the author makes the show-off partly instrumental in bringing a fortune to the family...