Word: windbags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walk.' Laage and a friend made each other wear signs at all times for a week except when sleeping or in the shower, in the interest of truth and suffering. Laage's read "I am a pimply-faced boy," while his friend's read "I am a windbag at both ends...
DIED. Harold Peary, 76, radio actor who starred from 1937 to 1950 as "The Great Gildersleeve," the pompous windbag with a heart of gold well hidden behind a wall of bluster, first on Fibber McGee and Molly and then on his own show, and made "You're a ha-a-ard man, McGee" and his trademark oily giggle national crazes; of a heart attack; in Torrance, Calif. Peary (born Harrold Jose Pereira de Faria) made several movies and numerous TV appearances as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve and in other parts; the radio role, which he abandoned, was continued until...
...Felix the Cat. But at the same time, Alexander's torrent of images corresponds to a real need, which, on the whole, his formal system can handle. But when his indignation is at full blast-as in The Art King, a mordant quotation from Bosch, showing a startled windbag of a culture hero being devoured, crown and all, by a leopard-he is plainly an original, though not necessarily a pleasant...
...fluttering to his mouth-and the mean joy of discovering his hidden base motives and critical intent. At the 1980 Democratic National Convention, Jimmy Carter took a lot of heat for referring to Hubert Humphrey as Hubert Horatio Hornblower because it was instantly recognized that Carter thought Humphrey a windbag. David Hartman of Good Morning America left little doubt about his feelings for a sponsor when he announced: "We'll be right back after this word from General Fools." At a conference in Berlin in 1954, France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was hailed as "that fine little...