Word: bombaster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accord negotiated fortnight ago by his son-in-law Count Ciano (TIME, Nov. 2) as "an axis around which all European States animated by a desire for Peace may collaborate on troubles. ... It is no wonder if we today raise the banner of anti-Bolshevism!" After uttering such warlike bombast, cautious Benito Mussolini always leaves open a diplomatic avenue running in the opposite direction. "Blackshirts!" he roared. "Your marching orders are: . . . Peace with all, with those near and afar! ARMED PEACE!!" As one who considers that he has "un-Wopped the Wops," Il Duce sees no reason why it should...
Although Nominee Thomas has scoured the continent from coast to coast, since July 1 has averaged two speeches a day and spent most of his nights in Pullman upper berths, although enough intellectual candor has gone into his speeches to debunk the inflated bombast of U. S. politics, this onetime Presbyterian minister has made much less impression in this campaign than he did in 1932. That year, because many a thoughtful citizen refused to have either Hoover or Roosevelt, the Socialist Party, with Norman Thomas heading its ticket, rolled up 884.741 votes its best record since Eugene Debs nearly touched...
...proved that it had the old patient endurance last night as 13 undergraduate extra-curricular leaders sold their pet projects to the new Yardlings, sold by brilliant bombast, repartee, swear words, and even a lengthy joke here and there...
...Dictator as something to be attained and consolidated in a matter of some 25 years, if indeed Ethiopian savages can be brought to civilized citizenship so soon. Last week Il Duce, with his plans and hopes for the new Italian Empire spreading decades ahead, indulged at Rome in no bombast or boasting, received with Augustan calm an amazing series of capitulations to Italy and to Fascism...
Already in the streets was a Franco manifesto packed with high Latin bombast: "The War was won despite the Government and the encyclopedic ineptitude of the army high command, thanks to the heroism and abnegation of the people. . . . The new Government will arrange a just peace with Bolivia, cede to the homeless the lands now owned by the wealthy, colonize the country with Paraguayans instead of undesirable foreigners, grant subsidies to war widows and mutilated veterans...