Word: bombastes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancestors would be as socially healthful as it is impossible. If Americans could only consider themselves sprung from "beaten" and "persecuted" sources, there might arise a justifiable national pride in the fact of material self-improvement to take the place of the straw and wind kind of bombast with which the great mass of the American public is filled...
...those who insist upon every man's right to "indifference", there is no horror greater than the meaningless bombast of college yells. Those chaotic confusions of trills, barks, and sensless syllables arouse, and justly, the disgust of those who hope that college is a breeding ground of intelligent manhood. But is there in the recommendation of the Council any suggestion that such idiocies are to be perpetrated? The present cheer, when efficiently and enthusiastically supported by the stands, resounds majestically within the Stadium and the Bowl. There is no threat against the dignity and strength of the traditional cheer...
This kind of thing, of course, flows as logically and as naturally from William's brain as does milk from a ripe coconut. Real touches of the ancient Imperial and Royal bombast are contained in the following excerpts...
...professional man, the journalist then began patronizing the schools of journalism he had hitherto scoffed; he talked of his craft's dignity; of its responsibilities, ethics. He gilded and engauded his picture of himself-but "remains, for all his dreams, a hired man." "The Kiwanian bombast of business managers" continues; likewise "the stupidity, cowardice, and Philistinism of working newspaper...
...coming barrage of political bombast and fustian may chill the somewhat delicate bloom of trade and industrial sentiment. Indeed the stock market seems to reflect such an occurrence. Yet the country has survived many major political campaigns, and probably will manage to this year, too. Meanwhile prospects for better business are extraordinarily bright and pronounced, while current business for the most part is extraordinarily dull and unsatisfactory...