Word: braggartly
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...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...
...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...