uppitily

— Barber A. M. Cash, who is one big reason—about 300 pounds, I’d say—why Charlotte lawyers are not shaggy-haired, until quite recently got a kick out of uppitily walking through the front room at home where the boys and girls were in anguish over the jig-saw puzzles. “Any time you want ’em finished I’ll do it in ten minutes,” he’d tell ’em. They’d chase him out and go back to worrying. But one evening they called his bluff.