Word: high-flown
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...farmers and fishermen, who since the Machine Age have been grinding out their lives in increasingly abject toil. Thus every Japanese businessman scanned with excruciating qualms every phrase of the Hirota Cabinet's first declaration of policy when it belatedly appeared last week. Its language was high-flown. "With a sense of awe and deep responsibility," preambled the Premier, "I have obeyed the Imperial command to organize a Cabinet after the recent extraordinary affair...
...Motta, inserted a small but fateful wad of gum into the League machinery by making clear that Switzerland, no matter what engagements she assumes or has assumed as a member of the League, will preserve as paramount to her safety "the historic principle of Swiss neutrality." This was a high-flown way of saying that bantamweight Switzerland must and will let middleweight Italy buy from or across her whatever Dictator Mussolini imperatively demands...
...first when the new Solicitor General appeared before the Supreme Court and delivered the kind of hoarse, high-flown preachments which used to win him cases before North Carolina jurors, some of the wise old Justices on the nation's highest bench looked displeased. Gradually they grew more tolerant of Solicitor General Bigg's performances. Latterly they have been seen to wink at one another while he was speaking. Once in the midst of an hour's oration to the court, Mr. Biggs was interrupted by Chief Justice Hughes: "Mr. Solicitor General, you have talked 45 minutes...
This piece of rhetoric was not a quotation from an inquiry into the burning of the Mono Castle or any other maritime disaster but a high-flown attack on William Walker McLellan, an aging Scot from Glasgow. About a year after the Titanic sank, Mr. McLellan bought a small chain of stores in North Carolina...
Much as America hates to admit it, the Dole undoubtedly saved England. Despite the "ignominy," despite the high-flown phrases about "selling one's birthright," the Dole, in fact, if not in name, exists and must exist in our own country today. But Britain faced the situation squarely as soon as it arose. The British grumbled, dug down deep in their pockets, paid till it hurt, and muddled through...