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  • Thumbnail for Robert Walpole
    Officers established in 1717 to investigate the abuse of pay. Walpole's fellow members, appointed by the Prince of Wales (later George II), included William...
    87 KB (9,576 words) - 15:18, 10 July 2024
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    expressions of the Chinese are pointed and sarcastic enough. A blustering, harmless fellow they call 'a paper tiger.' "Memorandum of Conversation, Beijing...
    13 KB (1,413 words) - 11:14, 29 April 2024
  • investment conference, "blustering on about the fundamental strength of Bear Stearns stock". In June 2022, Miller married fellow JHU Trustee Heather Miller...
    13 KB (1,404 words) - 22:41, 7 September 2023
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    mime and by honking a horn for "yes" or "no". Clarabell would also spray fellow cast member Buffalo Bob Smith with seltzer. Three actors played Clarabell...
    5 KB (611 words) - 01:56, 18 April 2024
  • Mullacking – working or walking in mud Possing – sopping wet Rossie – robust, blustering female Scut – a short, mean person, a wren Examples from Hogan and O'Neill's...
    14 KB (1,531 words) - 02:24, 11 June 2024
  • front of the entire school, which he easily wins despite Murney's show of bluster. The Firefly Girl Scouts use the fighting skills that Shane taught them...
    14 KB (1,417 words) - 19:42, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Morley
    was miscast, turning Holt, an unscrupulous English businessman, into a blustering Canadian expatriate. Edward, My Son (1949) was directed by George Cukor...
    27 KB (2,788 words) - 13:22, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rob Brydon
    Dana Stevens of Slate wrote, "Rob Brydon, plays Tristram’s Uncle Toby, a blustering war veteran with a wound in an unspeakable place. In the modern-day scenes...
    46 KB (3,396 words) - 13:49, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Broderick Crawford
    The film was a huge hit, and Crawford's performance as the bullying, blustering, yet insecure Governor Stark won him the Academy Award for Best Actor...
    28 KB (3,185 words) - 00:37, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Miloš Forman
    lectures about personal responsibility and the dignity of labor that his blustering father (Jan Vostrčil) delivers at home. Loves of a Blonde is one of the...
    52 KB (4,118 words) - 05:33, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Russian invasion of Ukraine
    Retrieved 25 January 2021. fear has gone hand-in-hand with chauvinistic bluster that indicates Moscow has a distorted view of modern Ukraine and the goals...
    402 KB (35,995 words) - 15:14, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chris Evans (actor)
    debut" and found his performance to be a "marvel of smooth calculation and bluster". Evans was nominated for a Drama League Award. In 2019, Evans played an...
    122 KB (8,627 words) - 01:54, 9 July 2024
  • Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    clouds of misstatements he [Perry] relies almost wholly on insinuation and bluster. ... when Andrew Boyle published his book and exposed Blunt, why did Margaret...
    25 KB (2,760 words) - 20:05, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grievances of the United States Declaration of Independence
    It was effectually done in Boston, and the government, after all its bluster, was obliged to recede. In 1774, the members of the council of Massachusetts...
    27 KB (3,619 words) - 05:53, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Layfield
    was rebranded as the heel character JBL— a rough-mannered, brawling, blustering, bad-tempered and bigmouthed Texas elite businessman, driven into the...
    104 KB (10,311 words) - 16:01, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geraint Evans
    getting his own way by running the whole gamut of techniques, from charm to bluster and back again. The critic Peter Conrad commented on Evans's "physiognomic...
    12 KB (1,683 words) - 11:13, 9 November 2023
  • 1977's Ol' Waylon also hitting No. 15 on the pop music charts. Along with fellow outlaw Willie Nelson, he was at the forefront of what was being referred...
    10 KB (1,127 words) - 22:41, 31 January 2024
  • Medical Examiner. Curtis is a capable and intelligent Medical Examiner whose bluster belies his love for his job. Though he is Megan's superior, her full-speed-ahead...
    13 KB (1,447 words) - 00:00, 22 November 2023
  • that Matiyek lived in "utter terror of Satan's Choice", and despite his bluster, he was constantly on the look-out for members for Satan's Choice whom...
    93 KB (15,018 words) - 06:48, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blackbeard
    appearances; better to strike fear into the heart of one's enemies than rely on bluster alone. Teach was tall, with broad shoulders. He wore knee-length boots...
    80 KB (9,937 words) - 19:02, 13 June 2024
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