Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kermit Roosevelt and John M. Franklin, with no pomp but little circumstance, began the rate war. They are respectively the sons of the late President Roosevelt and President Philip Albright Small Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine; and respectively they are the president and vice president of the Roosevelt Line, which operates U. S. Shipping Board vessels between India and U. S. ports on the North Atlantic...
Chiang Looms. Marshal Chiang Kaishek, a bantam weight, trim-figured "Nationalist," who disdains pomp and affects a simple khaki uniform, loomed, last week, as likely to be first in the field of springtime civil war. His personal headquarters are at the great seaport Shanghai; but he has recently been chosen the civil and military head of the "Nationalist Government of China," a group of politicians and generals with headquarters at Nanking, nearby. Last week this group were preparing to hold, early in January, a plenary session of the Nationalist party congress?to concoct war plans. Since there was danger, however...
With high pomp and circumstance, a squad of Mexican officials and a squadron of mounted guards called at the U. S. Embassy in Mexico City for Ambassador-extraordinary-and-plenipotentiary Dwight Whitney Morrow. Clattering back through the streets, the cavalcade conducted Mr. Morrow to the presidential palace. On the stroke of noon, President Plutarco Elias Calles entered the ambassador's salon to receive Mr. Morrow's credentials, hear his speech and make reply. By coincidence, each spoke exactly 170 words, Mr. Morrow in English, President Calles in Spanish. President Calles asked Mr. Morrow to sit down...
...ceremony of donating the memorial volume was attended with usual pomp. In the Salon of Letters, Arts and Sciences in the Hotel de Ville a distinguished group of political, industrial, artistic luminaries stood stiffly at attention as a band blared "God Save the King" and the "Marseillaise," after which the Golden Book was presented to Sir Austen by Louis Delsol. President of the Paris Municipal Council, with these words...
While even great and good men have occasionally made sport of Virtue, in every age, it is still venerated with the utmost pomp by a Germanic branch of that famed brotherhood of nobles, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem...