Word: bombastic
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...Germany last week arrived the first extensive report on a piquant subject, Adolf Hitler's grammar. As is well known to German editors and foreign correspondents, the Führer, at the height of his harangues, often leaves his prepared official text and soars off in silver-tongued bombast, only to become lost in the inversions of German sentence structure. Foreign newshawks watch for these flights to cable facetious cracks at the Führer's grammar. Vexed by such treatment, Hitler recently acted in defense of his eloquence. He set up no less than an Official Party...
...this was oratorical bombast it was not so received. For several days denials and reiterations flew back and forth. The Attorney General began an investigation. Last week, recriminations produced results. Swarthy, heavy-jowled, ox-shaped General Saturnine Cedillo, Minister of Agriculture and last Conservative remaining in the Cárdenas cabinet, resigned...
...obscure the goal. The need for better leadership, more honest thinking and a saner intellectual balance particularly in newspapers, is all too clearly evident to students of contemporary periodicals. Somewhere writers should be able to learn the elementary rule of journalistic navigation, that of steering their course straight between bombast and pussyfooting. In the United States a few powerful and unethical newspapers have in the past, and may in the future involve their country in wars and assasinations. The leadership of newspapers has proved at times more potent than that of politicians themselves; at other times, as in the past...
...additional airplanes. In Barcelona, the capital of Radical Catalonia, where he had fled a month ago, Spain's President Manuel Azaña was able cheerfully to boast last week: "The whole of Catalonia is concentrating on efforts to fight for the Republic!" That this was no idle bombast was evident when 6,000 Catalonians under debonair Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti marched to the relief of Madrid. Also fighting with the beleaguered Red militia, who for the first time were reported using poison gas, was a stalwart pro-Red column of volunteers, made up of Russians, Italians, French, Germans...
...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...