Word: blustering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After all the bluster and outcry about the painting outrage, does the '98 investigating committee suppose we are going to be satisfied with a tame and secret dismissal of the culprits when they are caught...
...cultivation of these qualities makes a man capable of giving a judgment that is entitled to weight, it brings out the best qualities of his individuality, it teaches him to avoid bluster and gives him the gentleness that springs, not from feebleness, but from vigor, and it inspires him to do what he ought under all conditions. If the new men were to escape the selfishness into which college men so easily fall, they would best do it by co-operating with the old men in work for these old ideals...