Word: highflown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Powers (TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Possibly because Madrid is now also beginning to get such munitions, Geneva success was achieved by those putting the pinch on Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo. While he could not be persuaded to keep quiet, his empurpled and highflown Latin oration about Democracy being at the crossroads in Madrid was completely stultified by Orator Alvarez del Vayo himself when he announced that last week the Madrid Cabinet was not going to ask any action of the League Assembly. "The era of national wars is fast disappearing!" cried the Spaniard...
...decade ago for the practical purpose of purchasing and pooling "hot" records from the U. S. In the U. S. the purpose of the clubs is to revive old masterpieces, organize "jam sessions" like Goodman's Chicago concert, discuss their hobby in terms which often sound like highflown nonsense...