Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auto solidifies in prestige, pomp and circumstance seep into the drawings (not to mention the ad copy). But there is an image of 1912 evening pleasure, with its silky escort, its four moth-white, moth-soft ladies enwombed in the felicities of a cross-sectioned Waverly Electric, in a rain-dim street, which catches a sort of elegant U.S. ecstasy that few conscious artists have caught...
...pressures he would find in Britain. Well did the men of politics recall the strange coincidence that Australian First Ministers who visit London while in office usually soon find themselves out of a job. Australians, they knew, liked their politicians plain, were quick to toss a man bemused by pomp & circumstance...
Other experts of pomp and protocol were no less worried at the thought of a rank clash between a nation limited to republican symbols and one which could always bring crown and scepter to the hierarchal front...
...Washington, John L. Lewis, who despises William Green almost as much as he hates Franklin Roosevelt, grinned sardonically as he followed the convention's dull familiar pomp. Said he: "Did you ever see me in a movement that stayed dead long...
...Garbett, Archbishop of York. He came to visit Patriarch Sergius, Metropolitan of All Russia, a fortnight after Joseph Stalin had given his blessing to the Russian Orthodox Church (TIME, Sept. 13), a few days after the 76-year-old Patriarch had been enthroned in his jampacked Cathedral with Ritualistic pomp not seen in Russia since the Bolshevik revolution. Following his enthronement, the Metropolitan blessed the Soviet Government (whose members, like all Communists, are atheists), and invoked the dire penalty of excommunication on Orthodox priests and laity anywhere in the world who by cooperating with the Nazis have been guilty...