Word: claptrap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schubert Memorial's concert, in the same hall with the same Philharmonic players and Conductor Willem Mengelberg. He played ambitiously, Brahms' great B flat Concerto-and in a manner so restrained and yet so immensely moving that critics who had hitherto accused him of superficial interpretation and claptrap effect, revamped their verdict. Widely-advertised Horowitz with the European reputation had made big music. He, apparently unconcerned, took his relaxation by spending the rest of the night at the 6-day bicycle race...
...last act one gang drops bombs on the other from an airplane, filling the theatre with smoke and confusion. The action-of which there is plenty-is largely laid in the beer king's den, a place of small tables, gats, a periscope, and other gangish claptrap. Here, in a moment of solicitous passion, one of the beer king's favorites whispered to a hushed house: "It ull sunds silly of cuss." That was true...
...saying ambiguously "a challenge issued by Jim is not the acceptance of a challenge by Miriam." True, able politicians like onetime Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey considered the campaign closed, refused to have anything more to do with the Fergusons, and Texans generally were sated with Ku Klux Klan claptrap. What difference? Jim made a speech...
Much of the majesty appertaining to the great New York Times has resulted from its stern refusal to print "features,"-i.e. comic strips, "colyums," Nell Brinkley claptrap, Dr. Crane flub-dub. Nothing but straight, reliable news went into the Times, soberly written...
...ORIGIN OF THE NEXT WAR -John Bakeless - Viking ($2.50). Not more than a handful of excessively well-posted people can afford to miss this book. Since it contains not a word of "war scare" claptrap, there is room upon its vivid pages for enough striking fact and comment to burst the covers off an average volume of like heft. Yet Mr. Bakeless' thesis is expressible in a few lines, which he modestly quotes from General Tasker H. Bliss...