Word: bombastes
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Nations with African colonies adjoining Italy's are Britain and France, but friction has been chiefly with France. Because other parts of the Dictator's speech breathed bombast, most commentators dismissed it as all bombast. In Paris clear-headed old Louis Barthou saw things differently. Secret pourparlers began. II Duce told nearly half a million Italians, pack-jamming Cathedral Square in Milan' that he was up to something (TIME, Oct. 15)-"Our relations with France have very greatly improved in recent times," he cried. "We hope soon to reach an accord which will be very fruitful." When...
...matter which should be as simple as the shooting of a couple of mad dogs involves the constant bombast of attorneys, the endless slush of newspaper columns, and the preparing of a jury for its labors by taking it en bloc to a baseball game...
...determination of policy. The amendments are and will continue to be treated as null and void." Mr. Lewis took the floor. "There is no reasonable man," he began, "who does not recognize that statement as bombast. The Alabama coal operators are not quite ready to declare war on the United States. But"-he paused and glowered-"if they feel that way, the United Mine Workers are ready within 15 days to furnish the President with 20 army divisions to force them to comply with the law." Mr. Johnston, very much in earnest, interrupted : "As between civil war in the industry...
...expect to recover for "several days." The several days have passed and Mr. Snell is apparently still laid low with shock -- or, at any rate, if he is capable of learning anything, he has retired into a silence which will probably not be pregnant of the rash bombast that he has displayed in the past. Mr. Snell's confreres are also quietly lugubrious, and it looks as if the President has once again outsmarted the boys at the Capitol at their own game...
That this was not mere bombast Japan soon found out. When the prosecution closed by demanding death sentences for three of the ten prisoners and long jail terms for the rest, fierce indignation boiled up at Japanese Naval bases, scared the Government into forbidding the Press to print news of what was happening in Naval circles. Tokyo tingled with rumors that Naval hotheads were plotting fresh acts of terror to force out mild Naval Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi. Fire- eating Vice-Admiral Suetsugu, commander of the 2nd Naval Squadron, was supposed to be the plotters' candidate...