Word: blathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visiting Babbitts with orchestral fanfares and vanishing birthday cakes, dons cop's garb to unsnarl traffic jams around the comfort stations, fishes for hecklers, whom he invariably outwits. His patter songs are masterpieces of non sequitur, leaping with dizzy unpredictability from Dixie dithyrambs to stirring on-to-war blather, with interpolations on foreign and domestic affairs. Louder than, and about as funny as Jimmy Durante, Jack White is 44, has been hoofing, gagging, minstreling, cabareting since 1911. More than anything else in life he loves the New York Giants. During the season, when the Giants fail to defeat their...
...believer in such tales, the Woodbridge Recorder surprised the complainants by ordering them to cease their blather about Mrs. Czinkota. When the Hungarians continued to shiver and mutter, the authority of the Church had to be invoked. The local Hungarian-speaking priest commanded the women to forget their fears, pacifically explained that Mrs. Czinkota might have been "under hypnotic influence" when observed by Hungarian peeping-Toms...
Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken: The talk about the "brain trust" is all blather. It always was. People have always wanted brains in their rulers, when they could find them. It is not the brain trust that was the bugaboo. It is youth. What frightened Dr. Wirt was the discovery that he was 60 years old, and that his young secretary had more to do with government than he had. . . . He was not going to let on how old he was, so he raised the hue and cry over brains, and it was a false scent, as the folks...
...cleaning up of an intolerable mess. Mr. Roosevelt's action in this case has been thoroughly courageous and essentially correct; the tactics of his opponents, particularly in the Lindbergh affair has been despicable and characteristically hypocritical. I do not believe that many people will be taken in by their blather about unfairness, despite their control of a good portion of the press and the immense influence they wield due to their wealth; and their success can only be viewed as the triumph of blackguardism...
Anyone who looks realistically at the facts in the case can hardly fall to be convinced that any talk about disarmament is the yeriest sort of blather. When 1935 and the end of the Washington Treaty come the true attitude of the powers which now talk so glibly about curtailing their war preparations will be revealed; and the hallucination of disarmament will collapse as thoroughly as did the fiction of a League of Nations not devoted to furthering the opportunism of the Allied Powers, under the stress of the withdrawal of Germany and Japan...