Word: blustering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the Bay of Biscay belligerently steamed six German warships, attempting by the menace of their guns to make the Spanish Reds release the Nazi freighter Palos which they had seized and interned at Bilbao. Amid much bluster on both sides, the Nazis made "unalterable demands," the Reds "unalterable refusals," and the little Palos became a bone over which could snarl the mightiest dogs of war. Meanwhile a fresh White offensive surged completely into Madrid from the west, occupying the north station near the onetime Royal Palace, then was swept completely out again by the Reds...
...Imperial Japanese Government, sorely uncertain this week, resorted to bluster. Tokyo Foreign Minister Arita did his best to intimidate acting Premier Kung with threats to the effect that Japan "demanded" no terms be made with Kidnapper Chang of a nature unfavorable to Japan...
...Buchman's plea was Zion's Herald, influential New England Methodist weekly which editorialized: "Just what would happen if Adolf Hitler, shorn of all his pagan power, were suddenly to become a St. Francis of Assisi? Would not such a conversion immediately mark the end of all bluster, swashbuckling, regimentation, coercion, intolerance, and persecution? Dictatorship would instantly fade away at the touch of Christ, whose whole method was teaching and persuasion...
...eastward side of his countenance bears a less benevolent aspect, a grim eye watches Japan, and he asserts, "If Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian Republic . . . . we have to be able to help that republic." And so it goes. The Russians bluster and the Japanese cat fire, in a vein ridiculously similar to boastful statements from pugilistic training camps...
...undeclared war" and seemed ready to fight at 30° below zero. In Tokyo, which was digging out from a record snowfall of twelve inches, the temperature was warmer last week than in Hsinking, but cooler-headed was the Japanese Government than the Government of Manchukuo. Japanese bluff & bluster has been loud during the years in which Bolsheviks have meekly put up with provoking frontier incidents, merely writing diplomatic notes which the Japanese Foreign Office sometimes answered, sometimes ignored. But with Soviet-Mongol forces actually showing fight last week Japanese War Minister Kawashima suddenly found it opportune to tell Tokyo...