Word: bombastics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does inadvertently achieve a curious cumulative impression of famous and infamous faces under the wear & tear of time. Hitler ages visibly from the bedraggled but hard-driving Chancellor (1933) to the double-chinned, snappish war lord (1941). Bombast and ostentatious health fade from Mussolini's naked dome after the debacle in Greece. From the present's point of view, Laval looks untrustworthy from the start. Irony stalks beside Winston Churchill and Admiral Darlan as they review French sailors together. The tread of marching armies forecasts the kind of fight they will make later on-the Germans, thudding, dour...
...following night Propagandist Anderson's bacchanalian bombast, translated into German, was short-waved back to her adopted country for all hungry Germans to hear. The effect was not bad. Plain Jane went off the air, has not been heard from since. It was a technical knockout for the U.S. Donovan Committee...
...Tightness about the Japanese stretching back to 1931, when, as Secretary of State, he condemned the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in terms far stronger than the rest of the diplomatic world was prepared then to accept. As Secretary of War he has personally been guilty of no cocky bombast, has indulged no huggermugger secrecy, has, instead, been frank, grave, honest. And so his words last week deserved a hearing...
...radio voices helped keep the nation's head clear. CBS's William L. Shirer, in never-flustered tones, anticipated President Roosevelt in explaining what war meant in terms of information. Dry humor was provided by CBS's Elmer Davis, who snorted gently at Hitler's bombast about "a year of greatest decision." Said Elmer: "To judge from the precedent of the past two years, he's going to have to put the same old record...
Italian Fascism was 19 years old. From the usual balcony of the Palazzo Venezia, Benito Mussolini spoke his usual bombast to the usual picked, cheering crowd: Bolshevism . . . is dying...