Word: pomposia
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...Julian S. Thompson, acted on Broadway some ten years back by Katherine Hepburn. The time is the B. C.'s; Hippolyta is Queen of the Amazons, that tribe of women warriors who thought that man's place was in the home. She marries shy, sissified Sapiens, son of Pomposia, who has a corner on the spear and arrow market, in order to get the necessary armaments to ward off an attacking Greek army. As long as Hippolyta wears her golden girdle, the women will rule. So the Greeks send Hercules to challenge the Queen in combat and get that girdle...
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