Word: windbags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then, having heard the speech, you would have to find out what motivated it, who wrote it for the politician, who listened to it. You would have to find out who liked the speech, who said the politician was a windbag anyway, and whether the speaker went home to his family or to confer with political cronies...
...Wallace (to whom you refer as "the Messianic windbag") is speaking in the interests of world brotherhood [TIME, April 21]. What should be more natural, more desired, than that he should carry his message abroad to all parts of the world? . . . This is no time for narrow nationalism. Civilization hangs in the balance. If the future proves a growing organism, and we find ourselves making great strides toward a better expression of life on earth, coming generations can give thanks that we heeded the Christian philosophy Mr. Wallace represents. If civilization declines to an era similar to the Dark Ages...
...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...