Word: bombaster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whistled a much different tune from that of last Spring. In May and June, on his raceabout tour of Northern Italy, he hurled bombast from stumps and palace balconies, defied France, flayed other governments (especially Great Britain's) for clumsy mishandling of unemployment. But now, in October, his sap having cooled, II Duce spoke at calm, significant length...
...Herr Hitler had spoken as he did in the sanctum sanctorum of German justice at Leipzig, into what inflammatory bombast might he not burst when the new Reichstag convenes on Oct. 16 next? Herren Hindenburg and Briining know as well as anyone else that the German Republic was actually proclaimed "not in written but in spoken words" from a window of the Reichstag by one Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist deputy who had neither "right" to do so nor "reason" to expect success (except the shouts of the mob). What has happened once can happen again...
Henri Cochet plays tennis as though the game were an argument couched in a difficult idiom which he alone had mastered. His placements have the brilliance, the finality of condescending epigrams. With such epigrams he might perhaps have punctured the crude bombast of Wilmer Allison's speedy serve last week, had he not flown over to Paris for Rene Lacoste's wedding to the French golf champion, Mile Simone Thion de la Chaume. When he returned to the centre court at Wimbledon, Cochet argued like a tired attorney. He won the first two games, but after that...
...demanded the actors even after they had been given a chance to go home. The chief cause for this exuberance seemed to be in the acting of Mr. Hampden himself, although the remainder of the cast came in for their share of popular favor. The play itself with its bombast and measured movement could not have stood alone on its own merits, but the performers seemed to cover up this defect to the entire satisfaction of the listeners...