Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victory"Ganne 2. Overture "Light Cavalry" Suppe 3. Fantasia, "Mefistofele" Boito 4. "Tech" Songs 5. Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint Saens 6. Second Slavonic Dance Dvorak 7. Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky 8. "Tech" Songs 9. Slection, "Rose Marie" Friml-Stothart 10. Waltz, "Dream of Love" Fahrbach 11. Pomp and Circumstance Elgar
...Prelude to Act 1 5. American Fantasy Herbert 6. Largo Handel Solo Violin, Harp, Organ and strings 7. From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water Cadmau-Jacchis 8. Selection, "Rose Marie" Frimi-Stothart 9. Ouverture Solonelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky 10. Walts, "Gold and Silver" Lehar 11. Pomp and Circumstance Eigar
...only son, Major Oscar von Hindenburg, as his personal adjutant, and it was reported, but not confirmed, that he had asked Dr. Meissner, President Ebert's secretary, to remain in office. The aged soldier let it be known that he was opposed to any form of military pomp at his inauguration and that he would swear allegiance to the Constitution in civilian dress. He was, moreover, reported to have overruled his advisers by stating decisively that he would receive the Diplomatic Corps on May 14. He was urged to receive them much later...
...pomp of authority often conceals its very human fallibilities, which remain to be pointed out by following generations. And in no field is authority so liable to blunder as in that of moral distinction. Each generation has corrected and even reversed the standards of obscenity and beauty which its predecessors respected. The constant modification of moral critoria should teach the postal authorities that they cannot be too cautious of hasty and outright condemnation...
...Tunisian Government, unlike the Egyptian, has received its guests well, cooperated with them in circumventing Carthaginian realtors whose plans for booming city lots in Carthage threatened to interfere with the scientists' investigations. Finds included babies' bottles, sunken gold, the dust of a dancing girl surrounded with funereal pomp, a hairpin and button factory, urns, tablets, a child's savings bank, a broken flute, a bronze razor, rouge, baubles, etc, etc. The forum of Carthage, said to be the spot where Queen Dido founded the city, is a prime target of the shovelers...