Word: blusterous
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...journalistic world has been stirred by the coming of Hitler and his gang into scanning history with an eager eye for striking analogies; and, as if by common consent, it has fastened upon 1914 as an instructive date from which to visualize our immediate future. In 1914 military bluster and parading idiocy were controlling the German state; Europe was tense and waiting; friction in the Balkans was apparent and unpleasantly suggestive of contagious possibilities. And with minor exceptions, those conditions are duplicated today. In such a pacifistic atmosphere, Germany's abrupt withdrawal from the League on Saturday was not calculated...
...developed over the main source of trouble (the Soviet owned Chinese Eastern Railway), there seems to be little basis for forecasting a war. Aside from the fact that both countries realize the prohibitive price of that form of insanity, it is quite obvious that all the recrimination and bluster employed by Japan and Russia alike are simply attempts at effective haggling over the sale of the disputed railroad...
...There was no accounting of the Chancellor's stewardship, not Adolf Hitler, not Paul von Hindenburg, is now the master. The facts of 150 days of Nazi rule spoke last week loudly for themselves: Resurgence. Overlooked or minimized by many a foreign reporter in his distaste for Nazi bluster and brutality is the great German fact of RESURGENCE, the lifting up in heart and soul of a people tired of remembering their defeat in 1918, their impoverishment under inflation and the feeling ever since that Germany had ceased to be a Great Power. In unlacing this straitjacket...
...writing of novels is a form of human activity that requires neither knowledge nor experience and only a small amount of native talent, for its successful accomplishment.&" It is not surprising, therefore, that his own novels are not very good. But in spite of its author's cynical bluster and insensitive awkwardness, Evelyn Prentice slowly pulls itself together into a ponderous but dramatic tale...
...business the Vickers Company is doing with Russia, both by preventing Soviet retaliation for company attempts at sabotage, and by hindering American recognition of the U.S.S.R. with its consequence of trade-rivalry. When the trial is held this month, these reasons will indubitably be further obscured by renewed bluster about the crucifixion of British subjects abroad...