Word: bombaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SHOW-OFF?A highly ticklesome comedy, turning bombast into a fine...
EXPRESSING WILLIE-A deft satire on the ludicrous results when a business man has an artistic reach that is longer than his grasp. BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK - Excellent foolery, in which the worm of music turns on big business. THE SHOW-OFF-A highly ticklesome comedy, turning bombast into a fine art. MEET THE WIFE-Two husbands of a flighty wife learning the rueful answer to the age-old question: "Who's boss around here?" THE POTTERS-An American genre study of amusing quality, with oil as the villain. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden superbly proving that there...
...score. To this libretto, the amazing concoction of one Friedrich Kind, Weber wrote a score that combines the simple tunefulness of the folksong and the Bavarian yodel with the brilliancy of the concert hall. It contains also demoniac bombast and eerie "agits" which would be dear to the heart of any cinema organist. Its first Viennese success was tremendous. Weber himself wrote in his diary: "Greater enthusiasm there cannot be, and I tremble to think of the future, for it is scarcely possible to rise higher than this. To God alone the praise...
While yet "The Mirrors of Downing Street" and "the Glass of Fashion" are being widely discussed as something more worth while than the effervescence of "the Grandmother of the Flapper" or the diaric bombast of Colonel Repington there comes another books from the pen of A Gentleman With a Duster. It may not command such a broad audience solely with religious personality and "the rather ignoble situation of the Church in the affections of men", but an eclectic public will appreciate the earnestness of the man even if it doesn't agree with his views...
...rest of the world as well, that the United States is so much in earnest that it is willing to go farther than the others to sacrifice certain advantages it may have, for the sake of the general good. The President's fine words of introduction were not bombast--their sincerity is more than proved by what the United States offers. His speech epitomizes what everyone would like to feel about America, but what we have been recently led to doubt. "We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends to serve; we suspect no enemy; we contemplate or apprehend...