Word: pomp
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...marriage, whether in Westminster Abbey or in a country church. Thus, what would otherwise have been merely a flash of gems, a blare of horns and a hash of gossip took on a meaning for Briton and alien by a fascinating interplay of dignity and earthiness, of humor, pomp and prayer...
...small stucco house in San Francisco last week, five bearded, black-robed men sat talking around a dining-room table. It was a sobor (ecclesiastical meeting) of the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church of North America. But the sobor had none of Orthodoxy's historic pomp-not even an ikon to remind the assembled bishops of the glory that once was St. Petersburg...
...Burrows (Sat. 10:30 p.m., CBS). The comedian's comedian, in his own little world of deflating pomp & circumstance...
Bill Green loves his job. He is not a man to seek or savor pomp. His offices in the A.F.L.'s old building on Washington's Ninth Street-where three elderly female secretaries fuss over him with a proprietary air-are faintly reminiscent of an old folks' home. He lives in a two-room suite at the Hamilton Hotel, often eats unrecognized at Stewarts Grill, a basement restaurant near his office...
...great week for the Brazilians. With pomp & circumstance the Rio Conference drew to a triumphant close. To visiting President Harry Truman (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a million cariocas gave a mighty civic reception. And at week's end, proud in the presence of distinguished guests, Brazil observed the 125th anniversary of national independence...