Word: bluffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conviction of his foes that he must be bluffing and therefore that his bluff can be called. All his life II Duce Mussolini has rattled and rattled before he struck. The Italian Cabinet against which he launched his March on Rome was sure he was bluffing. After ignoring the bluffer until too late, it failed utterly to buy off Editor Mussolini by offering him the prize of a Ministry without portfolio...
...exceeded without any apparent hardships to those who fill the Houses. But, naturally, the policy of Armenian higgling has led to a vitiation of the advantages which pertained to the position of the authorities during the first surprise years. As soon as the bluffing was two-sided, the original bluffer lost his superiority Knowing what sonority will be attributed to their "maximum price," the students naturally ask for below that price...
Grimly the cotton men passed a unanimous resolution, bound themselves to sell nothing more to Germany until their arrears are paid up and notified His Majesty's Government that their mills will stay closed indefinitely. Same day in Berlin that master bluffer of international finance. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and newly created ''Economic and Financial Tsar," suddenly issued a manifesto to the effect that "Germany, if necessary, can dispense with all raw material imports." This presumably was the opening move of Dr. Schacht, who always starts from zero, in a game to jockey the British cotton...
...sheer vituperation and ridicule Judge Lyle could hold his own against Mayor Thompson. Excerpt: "Chicago is a great and growing city. But what has Bill the Bluffer had to do with it? Like an African witch doctor he looks about, sees Chicago's skyscrapers, waves his arms and says, 'I did it all!' . . . An Eskimo at the North Pole might as well have been mayor ; while he was in Chicago his head quarters were in a hotel room where he spent his time playing checkers with a policeman. He calls me loony. Did you ever...