Word: pomp
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...motive of wanton pomp or curiosity was leading President Roosevelt thither. When President Hoover visited St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John in 1931, he shocked their inhabitants by calling their domicile an "effective poorhouse." President Roosevelt has already expressed his intention of making the three little Virgins into a New Deal archipelago...
...painted for a posterity which was quick to forget them. Last week in the Worcester Art Museum a collection of such portraits was put on show. Lent by many a learned institution or lately found in many a dusty New England attic, the pictures were a ghostly recollection of pomp and triviality in the late American...
...going to do away with all this pomp and ceremony in everything." husked "Mitch." declaring that he will ask Ontario's Chief Justice to perform provincially viceregal functions. " I think the Lieutenant Governor should resign voluntarily. . . . The wonderful response to my appeal for clean government overwhelms...
...telegrams from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, many another bigwig. Powel Crosley Jr., founder-president of Crosley Radio Corp. and owner of WLW, headed a six-hour program which 28 radio engineers broadcast from WLW's plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth. Until last week Warsaw led the world with a 158,000-watt station. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley's troublesome XER, across the Mexican border, acclaimed itself largest in North America with 75,000 watts...
...Pomp and Circumstance Elgar *"The Bartered Bride," Overture Smetana "Whispering Flowers" Blon *"Aida," Fantasia Verdi *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius *Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Saens Violin Solo: J. Theodorowicz *"The Cid," Suite Massenet *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *"Roses from the South," Waltz Strauss *Bacchanale, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens...