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...sure enough, in walked the biggest windbag the team has ever met. As Vince McGugan stepped to the plate, the "Month" began...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Varsity Nine Clinches Greater Boston Title | 5/12/1971 | See Source »

Frost, Epstein, and Garry grew visibly angry during' the discussion, and Garry frequently referred to Epstein as a "liar," a "windbag," a "racist," and "an agent...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: Debate Over Panther Deaths Continues | 3/3/1971 | See Source »

...could not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief industry." Though Orwell was a socialist, the metaphysical system underlying Marxian socialism meant nothing to him, and he had an empirical Englishman's distrust of other philosophical abstractions; to him, the existentialist Sartre was a windbag. But he also held an immense advantage over English intellectuals in politics who, by comparison, seem like dishonest children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd Man In: George Orwell | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...wealthy, thanks to royalties derived from the Lerner-Loewe musical Camelot. He was also troubled, his biographer reports, by a hopeless and uncontrollable passion for a young boy. He visited Florence in 1963 and is recalled by some members of the British colony there as a boozy windbag who told his stories too many times. In 1964, only 57 but seeming old and trembling in his anatomies, he died on shipboard after a U.S. lecture tour. On his tombstone, he is described as an author "who from a troubled heart delighted others, loving and praising this life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ill-Made Knight | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...resolution came in for some criticism because it gave every windbag south of the Rio Grande an excuse to fan the air. Since it only stated a known fact, though, there was hardly reason for the fuss. Considering the Communist subversion now going on in Peru, Venezuela and Colombia, the warning did not seem out of order. It also served as a sharp reminder that, despite U.S. pleas, the nations of Latin America have not yet put together a permanent body to cope with attempted Communist takeovers. Many of the loudest complainers last week were those who turn tail fastest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: New Warning to the Latins | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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