Word: pomp
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...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...
...most socially conscious New Dealer in the Roman Catholic hierarchy was raised to archiepiscopal dignity last week in the person of sandy-haired, twinkling-eyed Most Rev. Robert Emmet Lucey. With all the pomp and circumstance of his church's ritual, he was enthroned as Archbishop of San Antonio. The Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pope Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., himself installed him. For the dozens of bishops and archbishops, the scores of red-robed monsignori, the hundreds of priests and nuns, the thousands of lay folk who jammed San Fernando Cathedral...
Despite "strictest secrecy," 20,000 people had crowded into the Sportpalast by 4:30 p.m. For blocks outside storm troopers stood every few feet, and in the hall they sat in all the aisle seats. The occasion was all pomp. Above the stage a gigantic golden eagle sparkled against a red backdrop garnished with swastikas...