Word: pomp
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...engines, stinking box-cars, wood, sand, and concrete. Rough, eager workers with rugged, seamed faces, and stick-like limbs garbed in coarse cloth toil, sweat, wonder, learn, and finally succeed. The most industrious brigade is awarded a banner, the laurel wreath of the worker's state. There is no pomp or glitter, little enough of comfort, many primitive growls and grunts, but no oratory: the whole tone is rough, sodden, gray, inarticulate. The plot is of little or no moment--nay almost non-existent. The picture is too disjointed, too inchoate to be a work of art. No exceptional photographic...
With almost regal pomp Chancellor Hitler next opened Berlin's automobile show. Disregarding the fact that the German State railroads are one of the Government's most important sources of revenue, Handsome Adolf promised Government assistance to the motor industry, postulated: "The railway is too impersonal in that it restricts individual freedom. Today the automobile and the airplane [invariably used by Herr Hitler in preference to trains] constitute the most perfect instruments of transportation...
King George opened the First Conference with elegant pomp in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Mahatma Gandhi was not present. To everyone's amazement it was India's bejeweled Princes and Maharajas who upset the show by upsetting Great Britain's major premise, namely that the Indian rulers would be unwilling to merge their states into an Indian Federation. One after another Their Highnesses arose in dazzling splendor to say that they were willing...
...Russia. To him the Emperor was particularly gracious, for he was planning to betray his master. A nuncio from the Vatican moved remotely amid the revelry. In an ante-chamber the representative of his Brittannic Majesty cooled his heels neglected, anticipating a dozen Waterloos in revenge. A glittering pomp surrounded the little corporal, and the revelers of the Lupercal did homage till the Ides of March...
...Frank Moulin, who quipped so brilliantly last week as the Lord High Executioner, found the part of the Duke less suited to his kind of clowning. He came rather lamely "From the Sunny Spanish Shore," returned more impressively in the Second Act "With Ducal Pomp and Ducal Pride," and at length struck the right note of whimsical sedateness as the "Courtier grave and serious...