Word: bombaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather insulting bit of bombast, this. No preparatory school youth can fail to sense from afar the intellectual superiority that is Harvard's. Pity it is that be must put his ear to the ground in doubtful expectation of ever hearing a human sound to urge him hither! A Crimson Reader (Female...
Before the warm glow of his German hearth,, many a citizen of the Deutsches Reich scanned with rage and alarm, last week, the intemperate bombast of the German press, which thundered a warning that the Allied Powers were even then "packing" the Council of the League of Nations against Germany. (See THE LEAGUE, opposite page...
...When his lips quirked into their celebrated "Mona Lisa smile," he was not attempting to convey by innuendo that the pages of Thucydides are often frank, to say the least. When he strode up and down with impatient nervous steps, the pressmen did not attribute this activity to the bombast of salesmanship. Rather they congratulated this great statesman, former Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, upon the completion of a labor no less monumental because self-imposed : his translation into modern Greek of Thucydides' great history, with an exhaustive commentary and an added political disquisition. The whole, when printed, will embrace 15 volumes...
...King smiled amusedly at this bombast. After a short visit to Prince Albert, he returned to Ottawa and allowed the Liberal steam roller in Saskatchewan to obliterate doughty Captain Burgess, M. C., six ballots...
Your leading editor of today I find most pusillanimous with bastardy implied, perfidious in its ill-concealed splenetics, and hideous in its bombast. I cannot call it creditable journalism; too lame the tribute at its end, which does scant justice to a sheet of high repute, far higher than your...