Word: bombastics
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...stalwarts marched up & down the land echoing or outdoing him. William Harrison Fetridge, managing editor of The Republican, thought the welkin was ringing too loudly, wrote: "The time has come to talk plainly to a lot of Republicans. . . . Quiet, thoughtful, reasonable talk will win more votes than all the bombast you can muster." New York's Congressman Bruce Barton, candidate for the U. S. Senate, nailed a thesis on Mr. Roosevelt's front door charging the President with most of the political crimes in the calendar. Suggesting that Roosevelt planned a Hitlerized U. S., he accused the President...
...were those who talked back. Arrived in the U. S. from Shanghai, Publisher Cornelius Vander Starr of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury did his bit to fan the smoldering crisis by telling Manhattan reporters that Japan was a fifth-rate power whose principal weapon was bluff. "Regardless of her bombast, Japan will under no circumstances risk actual war with America," said lean Publisher Starr, whom the Japanese have separated not only from his newspaper but from the largest insurance business in the Far East...
...book covers a time space of slightly more than 24 hours, during which some suspected rustlers are tracked down and lynched. This is the complete action. Clark discards the traditional bombast usually associated with lynching tales, and instead creates a sombre, highly-charged situation in which every thought of individual characters is vividly represented. The action moves slowly, almost tortuously at times, because the author's emphasis is placed upon the psychological aspects of the story, rather than the external action...
...Chicagoans a chance to hear it with the Chicago Symphony, Harris' Third Symphony had become the most talked-about U. S. composition in a decade. Said Koussevitzky: "This is the first truly great symphonic work to be written in America." Chicago critics, admiring its lean economy, lack of bombast and its forthright poetic atmosphere, wrote that "something of the crudeness and strength of pioneer America has crept into this new symphony,'' found it "as completely outside European experience as the prairie morning itself." To more cautious listeners it was not so much pure U. S. music...
...Most spectacular of the bunch, a near-genius creation of canniness, stupidity, bombast and lust, is the half-articulate Rumanian Jew, Grain-broker Henri Leon, whose "deposit technique" marks the perfect blend of speculation and double-crossing. When Leon has a love affair with a smart Hollywood adventuress, he incorporates the partnership as the Margaret Trust, of which he holds 49% of the shares...