Word: braggart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom the rascally village officials-mayor, judge, postmaster, et al.-were ready with servile bribes. Facile young Romney Brent made an almost too convincing pipsqueak; pretty Dorothy Gish's part (her second off the screen) was only a small one-the naïve daughter of the braggart mayor and his cheap wife. The total effect of the cast was better than any of its parts-a gallery of wretched pantaloons topped off just before the last curtain by the towering, sinister figure of the real inspector general. A few hours before the opening performance, 325-lb. Actor Julian...
...goatee quivered with amazemen when "plain people" from "back up the bayous" voted him out of office for the first time in 46 years. Rarely in press or forum had a candidate been as roundly abused as Governor Long. He was called a "disqualified, discredited, inexperienced, erratic, boastful young braggart." Voters were warned that, if nominated and elected, he would "degrade the State at Washington with further clownishness and poltroonery...