Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will guest-conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra for four Sunday concerts. His purpose: to introduce contemporary British music to Americans, just as he has introduced it to Australians, New Zealanders, Swedes, Palestinian Jews and British war workers. Pleased to find U.S. familiarity with the works of Sir Edward Elgar (Pomp and Circumstance), he hopes to whet a U.S. appetite for Vaughan Williams, Gustav Hoist, William Walton and John Ireland...
...heartfelt screen version of A. J. Cronin's bestseller, lacks the parochial authenticity, the comic pathos and the sagacious acting which made Going My Way the best of all movies about priests. But it is rather more attentive to religion, and its religiousness is not only free of pomp and sanctimony but is also human, dramatic and moving...
Wang's last years, in his high-walled, floodlighted Nanking palace, brought him much that he wanted: power, pomp, wealth. But it did not bring him two things that most men cannot live without honor and peace of mind...
Italy was also a land of contrasts. In Rome iridescent socialites decayed in amiable dolce far niente. In Florence amid hunger and ruins a mayor was installed with Renaissance pomp & pageantry (see cut). Italy was also a land going into a climactic winter for which it had not enough of anything. Romans used to burn 120,000 kilowatts daily; now they were getting 30,000, and even that was dependent on an uncertain coal supply. There were not even enough candles to give everybody more than one a month. The departing Germans had driven away in the busses and there...
...should have succeeded him, since a Philippine election was obviously impossible. Instead he agreed with the U.S. Administration's desire to leave the ailing Quezon in office as a symbol of freedom for his conquered countrymen. Now, as President, he was content to walk again obscured by the pomp of Manuel Quezon's passing...