Word: pomp
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...independence, equality, a tradition for violence and abhorrence of ostentation-upon all these Tennessee prides herself. She likes to think she inherited them from Andrew Jackson, the old border fighter and duelist who declared: "Ask nothing but what is right, submit to nothing wrong. . . . True virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the governing passions; it can only dwell with the people-the great laboring and producing classes that form the bone and sinew of our confederacy." Old Hickory's shoots still spring green in the Volunteer State...
...President Vincent, now serving a second five-year term,* was referred to Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who gave a stag dinner in his honor at Welles's Oxon Hill, Md. mansion. Mr. Vincent did not get to see Secretary Hull, nor was he officially welcomed with pomp and display. Said one Washington official: "Well, you can't get those five tanks out every...
...charged that the "so-called graduate school of education in New England" is "nothing more or less than a department of education which has been expelled from the college with due pomp and ceremony," and urged that undergraduates be taught the "social significance of teaching...
Last week, as a Prince came of age in Rumania amid pomp and medal-pinning, an idea came of age in Germany-in that part of Germany which was once Czecho-Slovakia-amid the deepest sadness. The occasion was the 21st anniversary of the establishment of the CzechoSlovak Republic, 21st birthday of the idea of national self-determination, freedom for the little, liberty for the helpless. The sadness was the more poignant because no trace of liberty could be found in the celebrations...
Messrs. Roosevelt, Hull & Welles wanted a U. S.-Argentina reciprocal trade agreement. So, to shrewd, praise-loving Lamas, Franklin Roosevelt kowtowed with impressive pomp at Buenos Aires in 1936; at Lima...