Word: blathered
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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...
...Johannesburg and Cape Town, riots by native blacks accompanied the unfurling of the new flag. Misguided agents of the extreme pro-British faction, who wish to continue under the "Union Jack," had still further misguided the Afric blacks into believing the absurd bit of blather that the new flag would mean their enslavement. Fired by this preposterous notion, the natives massed and howled protests against what they called the "coffin flag." Shouting "Away with Slavery!" they tore down the new banner in numerous instances. Meanwhile 100% British Islanders drove through Johannesburg and Cape Town, waving the Union Jack and shouting...
...Talk. The essence of Fergusonism is good, vigorous home-and-family blather, the kind of thing a contented Americano is supposed to shout in at the wife while he is shaving in the bathroom and she is trying to sneak in another snooze. Jim can talk to Fundamentalists or Evolutionists with equal equanimity in his hearty, informal...