Word: windbag
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...Left heard, it gave no sign. Loudly, it proclaimed the coming of "a Messiah from the West." Retorted the Tory right: "That windbag of a Methodist* preacher of politics...
Like Two Dogs. Last week the Messianic windbag stepped out of a plane at London Airport into a blustery English gale. Ducking his head against stinging hail, he shook hands with Kingsley Martin and greeted the waiting newsmen...
Next the young man encounters an orating windbag, Mr. Speakeasy, M.P., whose booming platitudes about freedom from want fail to interest the pensive soldier. He is also unmoved by the frenzied screechings of Mr. Escapegoat, the diplomat, and the Rev. Hateman, the cleric, who unite in a Vansittart diatribe about German savagery and sing a duet: "The Germans are not the Herrenvolk. We are the Herrenvolk...
...Hard to forgive is the implied comparison ... of the regrettable Benito with Mr. Toad (TIME, Aug. 9). I have known Toad for 25 years, and I resent the slur upon his good name. He is a windbag, no doubt, but generous and lovable, with no harm...
Congressman Martin Dies was shown up-again-as a big political windbag. Attorney General Biddle reported that of 1,100 people on the Federal payroll whom the Dies Committee had listed as having subversive connections, FBI had found only two worth firing, one needing disciplining...