Word: upstart
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...their first meeting last August, upstart Herr Hitler was not so much as invited to sit down, despite the fact that he represented 230 Reichstag Deputies, by far the largest party in the Fatherland...
...freshman. During the War he served with distinction as an aviator in France, Macedonia. Morocco, where he had time to paint a number of most effective landscapes. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor, but, a sincere Royalist, he scorns the boutonniere as a relic of the Corsican upstart Napoleon. Shortly after the War he married Delfina Edwards-Bello, beautiful daughter of a wealthy Argentine. Their town house in Paris was the former studio of the late great Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, built on the site of an ancient convent, which Artist Boutet de Monvel has redecorated...
...interest my readers to know that my former athletic career has been discovered by some of the lesser known newspapers of Boston and New York, but nothing can take me away from my knothole position at Casey's Field, and I will not write anything exclusively for these upstart sheets...
...course lecture, in spite of upstart rivals in the tutorial system and in the reading periods, remains the central medium of university instruction. It is, accordingly essential that everything be done to counteract the inherent tendency of mass lectures to degenerate into a dull substitute for student reading. One valuable pedagogical instrument of which too little use is made is the class discussion...
...only was Governor La Follette denied renomination by a 95,000-vote majority (he defeated Governor Kohler by 127,000 votes in 1930) but big, blatant Senator John James Elaine, a La Follette "Progressive," went down into the dust before a young conservative upstart named John Bowman Chappie, editor of the Ashland Press. The La Follette dynasty had been rocked to its foundations. All that kept it from toppling out of sight was the presence of "Young Bob" in the Senate for at least another two years...