Word: bombaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Institute progressed by means of lectures to the assembled membership, debates before the house and discussion at smaller "round tables" led by experts. Facts and feelings, panoramas and programs, platitudes, witticisms, sound sense and bombast filled the air as they were to fill it for a month. The leading guests were mostly foreigners, the leading topics mostly international, including...
...Magnificent Idler, Author Rogers steps up to look at another post-Civil War celebrity, styled "perfect man," " drunken atheist, "equal of Demosthenes. The biographer's literary luggage is this time a collapsible suitcase full of modern stylistic, analytical, rhetorical tricks which make Ingersoll's oldtime silver -tongued bombast seem, by contrast, like the noises of a nickleplated nickleodeon. Undeniably, Colonel Bob was once important. He was, by force of personality, a sun about which minor political planets moved, forming an Ingersollar system. Now, no longer important, his outmoded heresies make him a handy quicksilver tongue in the thermometer...
...been the custom, the privilege and the honor, for incoming editorial boards to announce the arrival of a new era--one which, the young hopefuls are fond of asserting, bears close resemblancme to the millenium. The Yale Daily News, however, declares that it is abandoning this egotistic bombast: the new board offers no "elaborate platform"; conservatism will be the watchword, and the new editors will not rashly discard the traditions...
...proceeded for an hour and a quarter, but his system was still not fully relieved of bile. In a final orgasm of accusation he gave utterance to his long-festering abomination of the press gallery, which has repeatedly declared itself bored by his bombast. "Poor little purse-proud puppets," he sneered, "holding out their hands to get something scurrilous to write about a man who is trying to serve his country." The six gazers quickly reported the matter to their fellows, who, by tradition, leave the gallery when the Senator from Alabama rises...
...conservatism is evidenced by the fact that it is being talked about by those who are usually reticent concerning fads and fancies. Mr. Wahio Frank has stopped analyzing America long enough to vivisect this latest of arts, in the New Republic. His criticism is more sapient than the average bombast against innovations, because it has a universal concept as its base Mr. Frank argues that while jazz may be folk art, such qualification does not grant it a halo a priori. "There has indeed been abroad for a full century the curious notion that folk art, as once the King...