Word: windbag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books and conversation impress sloop captains, who mention him to Governors, one of whom, the windbag of Pennsylvania, starts him off to England but fails to provide promised letters. The pushful youth suffers penury, for the sake of seeing Dr. Johnson's London, for 18 months. He returns to Philadelphia saddened by bad friends, broadened and a complete "extrovert," determined...
...most illustrious of living Frenchmen, first internationally famed for his successful championship with Zola of Captain Dreyfus. (See TIME, Jan. 4, FRANCE, "Tiger, Tiger!" for a life sketch.) He retired from public life, embittered, when defeated for the Presidency by "that vol-au-vent" (windbag) Paul Deschanel...
...press commented diversely: "Good. This is no place for Reds," or "What! another invasion of free speech!" or "Why dignify this windbag by excluding him?" or "Mr. Kellogg could not do otherwise?the law required that Saklatvala be excluded...
...York Call, animadverting upon the revolt, says: " One of the most important items of news from Italy is the report that 40,000 Fascisti have resigned en masse from the organization. It is the first break that has occurred since the windbag (Mussolini) marched on Rome and established a moron dictatorship over Italy...
Abraham Cahan, editor 'of Forward (Jewish daily), said that Communistic Russia had failed, that " Lenin was a moral and physical failure," that Trotzky was " a great bombastic windbag...