Word: blustered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill's colleagues like his bluster and bravado. But whatever they think of Bill personally, Boston newsmen will admit that he has an immense following. It has been estimated that if Cunningham changed his job it would cost the Post 100,000 readers...
...anger he is cold and biting, but he never explodes in barrack bluster. A sure way to anger George Marshall is to ask him to change his mind when he has once made it up. No fretter, he can be so blunt as to offend strangers who mistake his abrupt decisiveness for insult. Yet his colleagues account him a warm and friendly fellow...
Tactful Dr. Funk proclaimed at a Turkish banquet last week: "The principal desire of Germany is establishment of the closest possible cooperation among the nations-thus leading to their Welfare, Peace and Happiness." This was a different note indeed from Kaiser Wilhelm II's bluster about "Berlin to Bagdad" and the "Drang nach Osten" or German "pressure toward the East." Anxious to preserve the new amenities between Germany and Britain established at Munich, yet anxious, too, to cash in on Germany's freshly won kudos, Dr. Funk opened as quietly as possible a Turkish credit with Germany...
...Showing a desirable respect for his material, he has also illustrated his book with nearly 500 reproductions of works of art, rather than with sketches of his own. The Cheney history has positive virtues of completeness, modesty and readability, avoids alike the arrogance of parochial "moderns" and the bluster of hidebound conservatives...
...into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. It was a devastating investigation of an authoritative Wise catalog, proved up to the hilt that Thomas James Wise had for at least twelve years invented pedigrees for worthless books and pamphlets, passed off forgeries as genuine. Oldster Wise tried to bluster it out, finally retired in silence to his Hampstead house, lived secluded there until his death last...