Word: pomp
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More than three miles tall, the "Mountains of the Moon" tower above Central Africa, regal in tremendous ermine robes of perpetual snow. Last week a white King & Queen passed with the pomp of a state visit before the white Moon Mountains. Black buck Negroes and black buxom Negresses prostrated themselves, as was fitting, before His Majesty Albert I, King of the Belgians and of Belgian Congo Blackamoors-and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The white Sovereigns, complacent, were on tour through their Afric domains, which are larger in area than all Western Europe and contain almost as many Blackamoors as does...
...Turkish super-submarines, recently completed by a Dutch shipyard, were welcomed into Turkish waters amid pomp. The Ghazi, the Victorious One, stood at a window of the Dolma-Baghtche Palace on the Bosphorus, and watched through field glasses while the Turkish flag was hoisted aboard the submarines...
...Suggested by Scenes at the Fiesta in Santa Barbara (1927) Converse Victory Dance of the first Inhabitants--Spanish Padres and Explorers--The March of Civilization--Land of Poco Timepo--Invasion of the Gringos--Midnight at "ElPaseo" 1927 "Espana" Chubrier Overture to "Le Maschere" Mascagni "Molly on the Shore" Grainger "Pomp and Circumatance" Elgar
...catastrophe when the people at the next table object to "the colored man." Jâli in anguish escapes to San Francisco Chinatown, where an ancient watchmaker mumbles his philosophy of resignation and indifference. Comforted by the old Chinaman, disgusted with the Occident, Jâli returns to the pomp and ceremony of coronation in Karastra...
...unpretentious arrival of the second Reading Period, unheralded by the journalistic pomp and circumstance that greted its predecessor, has given in May the dignity of an accepted innovation to what was in January an educational experiment. But the Reading Period has not yet completed its own justification as a fixture in the Harvard curriculum. The increase in honor grades of two percent, the increase of one percent in satisfactory grades, and the decrese of three percent in grades below the level of C would offer insufficient space for the seal of official approval, even if grades were to be considered...