Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...15th Century, under the lavish rule of the Dukes of Burgundy, the rich bilingual country of Belgium (then known as Flanders) held, for a short time, the cultural leadership of the Western world. Flemish painters and musicians ranged over Europe with the pomp of diplomats, asked high prices from competing princes and even taught a lesson or two to the artists of the budding Italian Renaissance. Today the finest mementos of Flanders' peak century are the small paintings, done with the detail of miniatures that are known to museums and collectors as "Flemish primitives...
...great day so far as the weather was concerned. The night before, Washington had had its worst blizzard since Jan. 28, 1922, when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater fell in. It was not a great day for pomp and circumstance. No crowds, no band, only Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles and heads of the Army, Navy and Marines, were at Union Station to greet the visitor from Mexico...
...have the resources of men, materials and skills. . . . The war lords of Nazi Germany boast that this country ... is divided. . . . But we Americans see a picture they can never see. . . . We see a nation slow to anger and unused to fear. ... It is a peaceful nation, unused to military pomp and circumstance. Strangers may think it soft, divided, ineffectual. What they do not see is . . our common heritage of freedom. And when that freedom is threatened, as it is today, this country will be found . . . not divided, but the United States of America...
...infirmities that profoundly affected his life: a withered left arm, injured by forceps at his birth, for which he compensated by showing great physical daring; and otorrhea, an ear infection, which made him irritable and increased a natural tendency to avoid mental exertion. Throughout his life he loved pomp and the physical trappings of power. Throughout his life his brilliance was marred by mental shallowness and arrogance...
...simultaneous upsies and dazies of Italian Imperial fortunes were last week exemplified by two brothers. Just after the Duke of Spoleto was named King of Croatia with pomp and jubilation, his elder brother the Duke of Aosta yielded up the trappings of his authority as Viceroy of Ethiopia...