Word: bluffer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would not debate in his church. And the incident was closed with a few parting, typically Stratonian epithets: "Bluffer . . . Tammany trickster . . . coward...
...enabled her, some 16 years after she had divorced him and some 50 years after he had been Vice President, to ride regally through France on the glory of his title. Once, on a country road, when her carriage was checked by some marching soldiers, the indomitable old bluffer stood up in her carriage and cried: "Place á la veuve du Vice Président des États-Unis!" And the awe-struck military, not being expected to be conversant with so much American history, promptly stood at attention as she drove imperially past...
...type of examination for college students which "affords no chance for the bluffer to exercise his arts and removes the examination from the category of sporting propositions", is being tried out at Columbia University. Instead of asking a few questions on the high spots of the course and encouraging lengthy answers, the new examination consists of a large number of statements concerning matters previously gone over, some of which are true, and others false. The student is asked to place a plus sign next to those he considers true, and a minus mark beside the false. This takes...