Word: exhibitionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landed in the Fort McPherson Post Hospital; he had been under observation there for a month. Hospital Commandant Colonel Burgh S. Burnett had an old-fashioned diagnosis: there was nothing abnormal about Salvatori's metabolism - it was really only his ego that needed nourishment. "He is an exhibitionist who puts on this eating show for the benefit of fellow soldiers." The Army had him eat alone, restricted his caloric intake...
Some reviewers entered reservations ("exhibitionist antics . . . abominable and irritating preciosity, a self-conscious pre tentiousness"). But the effect of their praise, plus lavish advertisements, was immediate. Rome Hanks sold out its first edition overnight...
...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...