Word: braggart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large man broke into this harangue with loud cries of, "Braggart! Fakah...
...Braggart!" George Luks charged down, seized the loud one by the scruff of the neck; "I'm old enough to be your father, but I'll lay you cold if you don't apologize. You're not talking to George Luks now, you're talking to 'Chicago Whitey,' the best barroom fighter in America. . . ." When most of the scandalized audience had fled, Artist Luks subsided, laughed, smoked a cigaret and then-for the benefit of a few adoring disciples-painted a skillful little sketch...
...grow discouraged and be taken in by the pre tensions of Enemy Hitler who already talks as if he were sure to become Ger man Chancellor. Exile Trotsky warned: "In every war the enemy tries to exaggerate its strength to impress the enemy. Hitler is just as good a braggart as Napoleon was. but his pretensions will be come true only the minute that the proletariat takes faith in them." Orating two days later to his Fascist followers at Munich, Leader Hitler flayed as "tools of Bolshevism" the Roman Catholics and German bourgeoisie who op pose...
...picture about seal hunting which the late Varick Frissell, Yale '26, nephew of Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot, was finishing when his ship blew up off White Bay, Newfoundland, killing him and 25 others (TIME, March 23). It tells a feeble love story about two sealers, one a braggart, the other a "jinker" (unlucky sealer), both attached to the same girl. But interesting and important is the middle part of the picture where the love story is practically forgotten and there is shown a journalistic record of a perilous and picturesque method of earning a livelihood. Producer Frissell secured...
Getting Married. This Theatre Guild revival of George Bernard Shaw's matrimonial polemic is well-staged, well-directed, well-acted. It presents a number of classic theatrical characters?the braggart soldier, the canny servant, the benign prelate, the worldly-wise woman. Worthiest of these folk, of course, are permitted to toss sound Shavian doctrine between themselves like a medicine ball. Mr. Shaw's sensible precept is that marriage is not a completely blessed state, but that there is no better solution for the social problems of men and women to date. His recommendations: more flexible divorce laws, more respect...