Word: braggart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian charity he thumped for the National Union for Social Justice, his organization for ''restoring America to the Americans." After roasting Bernard Mannes Baruch and the "lories of high finance," he declared: "I am characterized as a revolutionary for raising my voice. . . . With the logic of a braggart I have been challenged to divest myself of my priestly vocation if I wish to participate in national affairs. Does our conception of Americanism . . . cling to the outworn theory of the divine right of kings by which is implied that the affairs of good government . . . must be surrendered into...
Japan's greatest braggart is Minister of Education Genji Matsuda. Presented to the Wartime Prime Minister of Great Britain, he promptly cabled to Japan "THE LLOYD GEORGE OF THE EAST MET THE LLOYD GEORGE OF THE WEST TODAY AND TALKED POLITICS OVER...
Some time ago Braggart Matsuda surpassed himself in the august presence of the Genro (Elder Statesman) Prince Saionji, supreme arbiter of Japanese politics and chief adviser to the Throne. With a twist of phrase Mr. Matsuda implied equality between himself and Prince Saionji, caused the Genro to burst out laughing...
...British Secret Service in the occupied territories of Belgium and France, and in Germany, worked directly under me as their immediate Chief in the Field." So says Captain Henry Landau in beginning a detailed but never tedious record of the British spy system operating from Holland. Though no braggart, the author is not given to false modesty, takes honest pride in the achievements of himself and the men and women who risked a firing squad under his orders...
...pond, or a chorus of 100 carrying assorted dogs in their arms, are made tedious by end less elaborations. Typical shot: miniature chorus girl perched on the rim of a screen-high champagne glass. ¶The Show Off (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). George Kelly's biography of a braggart was voted the best play of 1923 by the Pulitzer Prize play jury. In this modernized cinema version it is likely to recapture much of its old popularity. Though Spencer Tracy at times stoops to tricks for audience sympathy which the late Louis John Bartels spurned, most...