Word: bluster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been imported from Croatia or somewhere else. We Serbs had to fight, and time and again we have lost everything in defense of our honor and our integrity. The Croats-well, they still have their furniture." The German Minister, Georg Viktor von Heeren, rushed to the Foreign Office to bluster. Old Dr. Nintchitch gave him exactly six minutes to speak his piece...
...speechifying, conferring, shaking every hand within reach. Senator Vandenberg, though he was backed by most of the regular party leaders, had made it clear that any nomination must come to him "from the deliberative judgment of the American people." The best his campaign managers could think up was to bluster that young Mr. Dewey was pushing and undignified, persuade Mr. Vandenberg to address local rallies from Washington by radio...
...abilities of the Group Theatre. In his characterizations, Odets is superb; in his final effect, jumbled and incoherent. As the wild and self-conscious Greek-American boy, Elia Kazan is one of the most fascinating personalities of the last few years. It is a part full of fight and bluster, and when the external shell comes off, insecurity, loneliness and an appealing love of humanity that cannot be hid. His barbaric naturalness wins the gentle Philadelphia girl who has run away from the sterility of her home. To what is the most difficult part of the play Jane Wyatt gives...