Word: blusterous
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What British newspapers called the "unprecedented bluster" of Commissar Litvinov's speech made Britons wonder if after all the Soviet Government might not have some real evidence against the arrested engineers, particularly when two other engineers of the same firm arrested on the same charges at the same time, had been so promptly released. Proceeding cautiously, the Government planned to introduce in the House of Commons a bill empowering the Government to declare an embargo on April 17; but about the Moscow trial the Prime Minister would say nothing "because to do so would not be in interest...
...third day Senator Long's voice was a hoarse whisper. Much of his bluster had gone. From old yellow copies of the Congressional Record he read musty and long-disproved attacks on the personal integrity of Eugene Meyer, whom he called the "Kingfish of the Federal Reserve." Croaked Senator Long: "What he won't do ain't in the books! Yet we hunt boys with a pint of whiskey on the hip. What's the use of keeping Capone in Atlanta? What's the use of hunting Insull in Greece?" At 5 p. m., worn...
Record. The first session of the 72nd Congress had been full of political bluster and bustle but behind the noise was plenty of substantial accomplishment. President Hoover got all he could reasonably expect from a divided Congress on the brink of a national election. His program for bolstering the sagging body economic of the nation was enacted. A variety of measures obnoxious to him were left to die. Between them, the President and the Congress made the following record...
...kind of fooling-himself-to-believe-things-not-so. He said he was boxing champion at Harvard because he had wished so intensely for that honor. He dodged taxes between New York and Oyster Bay because he was always more or less strapped for money. He tried to bluster out the protests against the Booker T. Washington White House dinner by saying that the Negro leader chanced to be around at lunch time whereas in fact the President had formally invited him for the evening meal. His declaration that all he knew about the Panama revolt was what he read...
...Plutocrat was originally a novel in which Booth Tarkington rather effectually rebutted Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt by describing the world travels of an Omaha porkpacker who, for all his bluster and gaucherie, was admirable rather than asinine. His virtues were particularly apparent by contrast with those of an epicine playwright whom he encountered on the way. In dramatizing the story, Arthur Goodrich has entirely neglected this central theme, has treated all the characters broadly and achieved a completely banal degree of farce. The performance by Charles Douville Coburn, Ivah Wills Coburn and their supporting cast is, at best, foolish...