Word: pomp
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...crowd at Manhattan's National Horse Show last week had something special to watch. Along with the traditional pomp and splendor, the show offered such a competitive match as had not been seen at the National for years. The big event: the international jumping, with teams from Mexico, France, Ireland, Canada and the U.S. The chief competitors: Mexico's famed Brigadier General Humberto Mariles, 1948 Olympic champion, and France's brilliant Pierre d'Oriola, this year's Olympic winner. As it turned out, Mariles and D'Oriola had their duel...
...state capitol in Lansing, Governor Williams runs Michigan with a fine air of democracy and honest folksiness. His office door is never closed, and newsmen are privileged to wander in & out of his "goldfish bowl" (as he calls it); they listen in on state conferences. Soapy detests pomp and formality, sends his three youngsters to Lansing public schools. He lives well within his $22,500-a-year salary: there is only one maid to help Nancy run their rambling old house eight blocks from the capitol (Michigan does not provide an executive mansion). Frequently Soapy answers his own telephone...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...
...wonder is whether they have realized the treacherous trap door on which it all stands. It is an alert that I am sounding; yet it is more than an alert-it is an alarm. We have never been beaten yet, and now we fight not for vainglory or pomp but for our survival...
...blaze of pomp & circumstance, Britain's Royal Family ended its four-month period of mourning for King George VI. Last week all the Queen's horses* and all the Queen's men discarded the trappings of grief (black rosette for horses, black arm bands for men) and buckled on the breastplates of pageantry. The occasion was the traditional Trooping the Color in honor of Elizabeth II's 26th birthday. Actually, she became 26 last April 21, but like her December-born father agreed to celebrate in June so that her subjects would be more...