Word: blurting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...existence in the U. S. of Bunds. Communists. Fascist shirt groups is no news. To U. S. ears last week there was something more blundering than sinister in the reported blurt of the Nazi Consul General in New Orleans, lean-faced Edgar Freiherr Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim: "Germany will not forget that when she was waging a struggle for her very life the U. S. did everything in its power to aid her enemies.'' When those words were published in the New Orleans States, the indignant baron said that he made the comment off the record. Later...
...Best blurt: Göring as a host, standing "buxomly around greeting the women guests, in his rather badly acted role of naïve confusion...
...expend in absolutely any manner he thinks fit-indeed, no Frenchman would be surprised to learn that plug-uglies of the Left were receiving wads of banknotes from the Popular Front Cabinet today to "keep order"-but that any onetime Premier should so utterly lack discretion as to blurt out brutal facts of this kind and give the politicians' show away, last week astonished Europe. But there was no outcry that French Democracy should no longer employ "secret funds" since these are considered a necessary weapon always in reserve for quick action against the quick-acting dictators...
Talky-Talk. Wells's straw-men are also ventriloquial dummies: they all have the dubious gift of gabble. And for every keen sentence he lets them blurt, he makes them babble a tedious paragraph. Star-Begotten is a short book but spots in it seem very long. His scientists may be angels in the laboratory or operating room but often they talk like poor Poll. Says one of them: "In a fools' world sane men will have a bad time anyhow; but they can help wind up the world of fools even if they cannot hope...
...famed for his polite but sudden departures, for leaving his hat in a special place by itself, so that he will not have to rummage for it when he makes his getaway. Sensitive of other people's feelings to the point of anguish, he will sometimes blurt out what he fears is an unpalatable truth, then hastily cover up his remark with polite qualifications. Conversationally compact of nods and becks and wreathed smiles, he is a very different sort of fellow at his writing table...