Word: pompous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Campaign Funds Investigating Committee of the U. S. Senate has opened headquarters in Chicago to sift charges that three millions were flung back and forth by the supporters of Frank L. Smith and Senator William B. McKinley in last month's primary. The star witness will be a pompous little man whose brain seems to live on huge financial figures, while his stolid personality presides over the gas works, electric dynamos, elevated railways and civic opera, that all contribute to make Chicago its bigger and better self. He is Samuel Insull, and it is charged that he either knuckled...
Eighteen years ago a pompous papal delegate witnessed the laying of the cornerstone of the St. Louis Cathedral. Last week, following appropriately the brilliant pageant of the Eucharistic Congress, church princes, prelates, priests participated in the medieval liturgy of consecration. Seven o'clock in the morning saw 8,000 reverent worshipers on Lindell Boulevard gazing awe-struck at the Cathedral's granite walls, at its glistening green dome. The massive doors swung open. Came forth in stately procession acolytes, priests, deacons, followed by Archbishop Glennon wearing a white cope and carrying the episcopal crozier. Thrice this holy array...
...Pompous street criers strode last week through the narrow, vile and crowded thoroughfares of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. What the criers intoned in majestic Persian, their attendants translated freely into vulgar Pushtoo. Soon the 100,000 citizens of Kabul rejoiced that there Amir* ("Sovereign Lord") Amanullah Khan had conferred upon himself by proclamation the title "King...
...Princesses, the warm scent of orange blossoms, tiny balls spinning in a great casino, the great Caruso who was her Rodolfo, Tosti making great goggle eyes from the front row. It, too, had been the first Covent Garden performance after the War, when a shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black. Yes, La Bohème was good. But so was Romeo et Juliette, which she had studied with Gounod himself-Gounod with his velvet skullcap and his velvet smoking jacket-Romeo et Juliette in which she had made her first successful London appearance with Jean de Reszke her Romeo...
...cater to that sense of Asiatic luxury which is "proper to every good Jew," he had built the hotel around a bath. The Christians who objected to sharing their public quarters with Jews had no such splendid bath as this-no, nor had Augustus Caesar, nor has the most pompous sybarite in Hollywood. The notables, the pressmen inspected the hotel-a steel and concrete Joseph's coat, a terraced temple of fantastic, incredible luxury...