Word: bombastics
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Thus with blatancy and bombast the Liberal Party Congress was addressed at Yarmouth, last week, by David Lloyd George. Though turned 65, the bandy little Welshman seemed to tingle with the fires and fervors of his youth. As though spoiling for a fight, he rubbed his eager hands and cried...
Jarnegan. To Hollywood, the "bums' paradise," where there is "a pushover on every corner," comes Jack Jarnegan, a crude and noisy dynamo, full of boxcar bombast. Soon he is a director of cinemasterpieces. He confesses that on his arrival in the loud metropolis he slept in a flop house in company with other tramps; now, on the contrary, he has a fine house where there are eleven bedrooms and a Jane in every one. Richard Bennett plays Jarnegan with guttural roars, hob-nails, stubble-beard and a chest expansion. All this is profane and exciting...
...business," but for its record of minstrelsy since 14th century troubadours. Though the emphasis is of course upon the scions of the American burnt-cork circle, they have not been accorded the full responsibility they have undoubtedly had for weaning an 18th century public away from stage bombast to the extremely humanist drama of today...
...from "Crack King George on the snout!" to "To hell with the Tribune!" Political tickets being what they are in Chicago, Mr. Madden might well have been defeated together with Crowe. His opponent was William L. Dawson, a Negro backed by other Negroes who were sick of the Thompsonian bombast and wanted a Representative of their own race. But Congress did not lose its distinguished member. Mr. Madden...
...have loosed the flight of slings and arrows at the ex-marine have been Heywood Broun, Louis Bromfield, Sinclair Lewis and H. L. Mencken. "One has only to contrast the interviews given by these two men, Dempsey and Tunney; one simple and profound, the other a mixture of bombast and cant," says one decrier of the literary note in Mr. Tunney's public statements. "A pugilist reading Hegel is about as appropriate as the dean of a woman's college singing. 'I'm Gonna Dance Wit' the Guy What Brung Me' says another. Unless he wishes to go down...