Word: bluster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does not lovely Miss Somersdown give her hand to Mr. Bluster? Is it because Bluster, who is inclined to booze, resembles "a walking lump of drink-produced excrescences?" No, no, it is not that at all. It is because Bluster's courting technique is so blistering-"a cold methodical intriguing piece of secularity, without sympathy or sentiment, talent or tenderness." It cannot be compared to the courting methods of manly Nat, who cries from the bottom of his honest heart: "O speak unreservedly to me, Miss Somersdown; if your heart be free and unfettered ... if there be any means...
...easy on his old comrades-perhaps out of his own personal affection for associates of his guerrilla days, more likely because it fitted into the Marshal's desire to have the West think of him as a warmhearted chap beneath all those medals and all that bluster...
...play Yellow Jack by Sidney Howard. In the dramatized account of the U.S. Army's conquest of yellow fever in Cuba, Lorne Greene was convincing as Major Walter Reed. Dane Clark packed considerable power into the role of Dr. Lazear, and Jackie Cooper, stuffed with brogue, blarney and bluster, was effective as O'Hara. Wally Cox wittily handled his small part as the soldier who becomes an innocent guinea pig for the medicos. Unfortunately the play itself had a tendency to drag between high moments and a habit of making its points over and over again...
When the Senate's censure proceedings ended, Senator McCarthy could no longer complain that his exposure of Communists was being "hamstrung." With a public show of energy tempered by bluster, he ordered his Permanent Investigations Subcommittee into action, ostensibly to find Communists in defense plants...
...Bourke, formally quit the Tory Party and said he would sit as an Independent. "From Palestine, from Burma, from India, from Persia, from the Sudan and now from Egypt the ignominious retreat has gone on," the major cried. "Where next are we to be pushed from?" Despite all the bluster from the rear, the Tories should be able to get a majority for a Suez agreement. They can count on heavy support from the Socialists, who first proposed evacuation eight years ago and were chided by Churchill for their "great shame and folly...