Word: blowhard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such britches-busting boasts have helped to make little Billy a big nuisance to a great many people. A Broadway wit once snarled: "Nobody would ever kidnap Billy Rose. Who would pay the ransom?" Billy has been cussed up & down the main stem as a cheapskate, a blowhard and a social climber who "truckles to celebrities and yells at waiters." More recently, he has been denounced by some of his detractors as a phony intellectual...
Then Missouri's obstreperous Dewey Short stood up in the House, flailed his long arms, popped off in his best alliterative style: "Wee Windy War Willkie. . . . Oh, this bellowing, blatant, bellicose, belligerent, bombastic blowhard. . . . God forgive me for ever having supported such an impostor. ... I really would like to take the gloves off and sail into Mr. Willkie as he deserves...
Yankee Imperialism. For another more effective piece of propaganda the Axis did not have to take any official responsibility. Its agents quietly called the attention of Latin Americans to an interview reeled off in Washington last week by Senator David Worth Clark of Idaho. Blowhard Senator Clark irresponsibly suggested that the U.S. should take full possession of the Western Hemisphere, including Canada. "We could make some kind of arrangement to set up puppet governments which we could trust to put American interests ahead of those of Germany or any other nation in the world...
Fibber's garrulous tarradiddles, the broguish comeuppances Molly metes out to him, the dated didos of his numerous stooges, are as familiar as the pattern of the living-room rug. Fibber is an incorrigible blowhard, but a game guy to boot. With nonpareil confidence, he tries his luck at anything, from barbering to running an army...