Word: bluster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great is a roisterous, freewheeling and often very amusing story about a four-flushing circus owner. It straddles two generations of easy-money mischief and scalps a whole zoo full of roguish characters. It is as blusteringly improbable as a W. C. Fields movie, and has some of the same appeal. Beneath the bluster, Gus the Great skillfully satirizes the great American success story...
...Bluster & Ballyhoo. What these facts proved was that bluster and ballyhoo had been a big force in wartime Washington. The final super-cargo-plane contract turned out to be for only three 200-ton craft. Kaiser lost interest in the scheme and later bowed out, muttering darkly about a "mysterious kiss-off." With Hughes on his own, the contract shrank to one plane which has never yet flown...
...with a bad heart and a queasy stomach, Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky looked remarkably fit when his trial began last April. For a man on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Government, he was amazingly full of bluster. For a onetime chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, he was in the company of unsavory codefendants: the mysterious brothers Garsson,* owners of a shadowy wartime munitions empire. But Andy May was an amazing...
...this week Andy May was looking tired, old and sick. With the Garssons' own defense still to come, it would be at least a fortnight before the verdict was in. But Andy May's bluster was wearing thin. As the cross-examination wound up, the best he could muster was a threat to summon the full membership of his old committee, if necessary, to attest to his personal integrity...
...will come when Boreas will be in brash and brazen bluster. Against that day, we would commend to all lectures who occupy the nine-to-ten hour a thawing out period for fingers with small warmth of coursing blood in them...