Word: pompe
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...pomp of authority often conceals its very human fallibilities, which remain to be pointed out by following generations. And in no field is authority so liable to blunder as in that of moral distinction. Each generation has corrected and even reversed the standards of obscenity and beauty which its predecessors respected. The constant modification of moral critoria should teach the postal authorities that they cannot be too cautious of hasty and outright condemnation...
...society which, whatever it is, is what it is and at that not vastly different from other societies. What, it may be asked, is the use of the corps diplomatique straining its brains and buttons to preserve the international amenities when at one fell blow they are violated without pomp or ceremony by a pictorial incitement to popular mutiny. It remains a shining platitude that all the efforts of suave diplomatists to weld Anglo-Saxonism into a case-hardened ideal are as a potato to a sitting hen in the face of the deft strokes of irresponsible, irrepressible caricaturists...
...Kano, 705 miles from Lagos, the Prince was received by an assemblage of native chiefs in solemn pomp. Many gifts of the purest gold were made and after a stay of two days, during which he played tennis and polo, the Prince returned to the sea and the Repulse, which, amid the cheering hullabaloo from the shore, turned her bows toward the south and churned her way to Cape Town, the point de départ for an extended tour of the Union of South Africa...
...Tunisian Government, unlike the Egyptian, has received its guests well, cooperated with them in circumventing Carthaginian realtors whose plans for booming city lots in Carthage threatened to interfere with the scientists' investigations. Finds included babies' bottles, sunken gold, the dust of a dancing girl surrounded with funereal pomp, a hairpin and button factory, urns, tablets, a child's savings bank, a broken flute, a bronze razor, rouge, baubles, etc, etc. The forum of Carthage, said to be the spot where Queen Dido founded the city, is a prime target of the shovelers...
...absolute value in spite of Einstein. But one of your news items caused me to raise my eyebrows, open my mouth and give forth a faint screech. The item reads: "As Heidelberg is occupied by French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp" (TIME, Mar. 16, Page 11). Heidelberg is my Alma Mater. I studied there from 1918 to 1921. To my knowledge, no French troops ever were stationed there; the nearest they came was Ludwigshafen on the left side of the Rhine...