Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vogue of Slavic music is definitely past; for Koussevitzky to make as much money out of Tchaikovsky as Freddy Martin is a form of disrespect for his audience. The celebration, with much pomp, of the eightieth birthday of a composer who stopped writing 20 years ago, and whose acceptability has been constantly sinking since, is not in the best of taste: let the poor...
...Nazi elite were gathering again at Nürnberg. But the old Parteitag pomp and mass hysteria were gone. This time the leaders had to make their speeches in prison cells, where they awaited trial by the United Nations War Crimes Commission for being Nazis and starting the war. Most of them were hard at work on their defense. Chances were they would claim to be guilty only of German patriotism...
...idea for this kind of peace conference, staged without pomp and with strictly limited membership, was an American idea. It was suggested at San Francisco by Assistant Secretary of State James C. Dunn, a State Department career man for 25 years. The suggestion was approved by President Truman, sold by him to Stalin and Attlee at Potsdam. It was eagerly snapped up by Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes, who knew instinctively that he would be thoroughly at home at a meeting where a few men could talk plainly behind closed doors. It was exactly what he had done...
Japan's campaign for world empire was dead, and it was about to be interred with due pomp and ceremony. Details of the funeral preoccupied both the Japanese and the Allies, but vanquished Japs still could not bring themselves to accept the reality...
Socialism inaugurated its reign with regal pomp...