Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Vincent, now serving a second five-year term,* was referred to Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who gave a stag dinner in his honor at Welles's Oxon Hill, Md. mansion. Mr. Vincent did not get to see Secretary Hull, nor was he officially welcomed with pomp and display. Said one Washington official: "Well, you can't get those five tanks out every...
...charged that the "so-called graduate school of education in New England" is "nothing more or less than a department of education which has been expelled from the college with due pomp and ceremony," and urged that undergraduates be taught the "social significance of teaching...
Last week, as a Prince came of age in Rumania amid pomp and medal-pinning, an idea came of age in Germany-in that part of Germany which was once Czecho-Slovakia-amid the deepest sadness. The occasion was the 21st anniversary of the establishment of the CzechoSlovak Republic, 21st birthday of the idea of national self-determination, freedom for the little, liberty for the helpless. The sadness was the more poignant because no trace of liberty could be found in the celebrations...
Messrs. Roosevelt, Hull & Welles wanted a U. S.-Argentina reciprocal trade agreement. So, to shrewd, praise-loving Lamas, Franklin Roosevelt kowtowed with impressive pomp at Buenos Aires in 1936; at Lima...
...story is that he was buried under a great tree and that picked warriors stood guard until a forest grew to hide the spot. Nevertheless, last week an Associated Press dispatch told with unhistorical assurance of a silver coffin from a shrine in Etshinhuro, Mongolia, which was carried with pomp and fire crackers through the Great Wall on its way to a hiding place in Western China far from Japanese raiders. Inside, insisted the A. P., was the dust of the Great Khan, the "perfect warrior and the Scourge...