Word: pomp
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There was every reason to believe that the pomp of King Leopold's visit of state last week was its essence, whereas his informal visit to London last March was quietly devoted to the big business of setting up by treaty Belgium's present status as a neutral, protected in 1937 by British, French and German guarantees (TIME, April 5 et seq.). On quiet visits to London came last fortnight little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and King George II of Greece...
...molestation from the Secret Police an assembly to decide the electoral policies of the Church. It became a question whether religious groups should attempt to nominate for election to the Supreme Soviet priests, bishops, or even His Holiness the Metropolitan Sergius who today still celebrates Orthodox rites with all pomp in one of the Moscow churches which have not been closed. Soviet reporters, while handling such news with mittens, have made clear in Pravda and in Izvestia (News), official organ of the Soviet Government, that the Russian priest of today is generally as much a "worker" as anyone else...
Victoria the Great (RKO Radio). Shaking from her pretty shoulders the garish costumes of two previous cinema roles-as Nell Gwyn and Peg Woffington -Britain's beloved Anna Neagle last week traced with pomp and piety Queen Victoria's long reign. Because the film is lengthy, because its subject is the most sanctified one in British history, awed critics detoured around its rough spots with wistful allusions to Helen Hayes and Victoria Regina, vaguely said that the picture, presenting almost precisely the same episodes as did Laurence Housman's play, was perhaps about as good...
Beneath the pomp and ceremony of these three inductions, and far surpasing them in importance, remains a significant, and in these troubled times, a comforting revelation: America can still competently fill its outstanding educational positions. Yale, Williams, and Cornell are demonstrating this tomorrow. Harvard proved it in 1933. And Harvard may be justly proud of its part in producing men of this calibre, capable new men equipped to carry on in the large old shoes...
...pomp was lavished on these foreign envoys. Housed in sleeping cars in a Nürnberg freight yard, they shared a crude drawing room, had to walk down the tracks for their baths. Only official recognition of their presence was a tea with Hitler at which the Führer moved among the tables, chatting with them. Night before envoys of the U. S., Britain and France arrived, toucan-beaked Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels gibed that democracies were "stupid cows going to the slaughter house...