Word: braggadocios
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Faced with his audience's intoxicating overflow, Priest Coughlin overflowed. Time & again, egged on by thunderous applause, he departed from his text to touch new heights of abuse, imprecation, braggadocio...
Exactly like comets are Chinese War Lords, here in a halo of gore and glory one day, gone next week into uttermost limbo, then back again after several years with brilliance undimmed, braggadocio redoubled. Last week from the limbo of a remote Buddhist monastery in Tibet there returned to the everlasting Chinese fray Comet Wu Pei-fu, the "Scholar War Lord...
...Continued from p. 40) Bigger and Better Than Ever in his anniversary Scandals. The tune is piffle; the sentiment is mere braggadocio. But he should again succeed, for he still knows how to polish the fleshpots. Once his girlish regiment sprawls on a beach, clad for maximum suntan. When costumes are more voluminous, engaging apertures are cut in them. Entrancing is a lady who stands vastly denuded, symbolic of the American Indian, and looks remarkably like Helen Wills...
Citizens of a Missouri town called Braggadocio hammered and sawed industriously in their town square. Idlers eyed the workmen judiciously and offered suggestions. The workmen were building a scaffold...
...night before, Mrs. Ella Henderson, a Braggadocio widow of 31 with two children, had called the constable and told him that she had been attacked. From her emotional description the constable made out that Mrs. Henderson's assailant was Will Sherod, 30, a Negro, whom he forthwith lodged in Pemiscot County jail, 15 miles from Braggadocio...