Word: pompous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Russia. One of the first acts of Premier Macdonald was to give effect to his policy of ending "the pompous policy of standing aloof from Russia." James O'Grady, Labor M. P., was offered and accepted the post of British Ambassador to Russia. Official recognition of Russia, however, was held in abeyance pending agreement on the conditions of such recognition of the British Government and the acceptance by both Governments of each other's ambassadorial candidates...
...Labor Party: To establish European peace on "an understanding of humane" men and women, "who have no cause for war, no cause for enmity"; to use the League of Nations "without reserve as the main instrument of securing international justice"; to recognize Russia and so end "the pompous folly of standing aloof from the Russian Government"; to encourage trade "from the coasts of Japan to the coasts of Ireland"; to deal with unemployment by creating a Labor Department "staffed by men and women of labor experience; experience, aye, and knowledge, the spirit, insight and capacity to put themselves...
...exception of Oliver Twist, Long Live the King (from a novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart) is the best thing Jackie has done. He plays the tiny Crown Prince of a European Principality who is captured by anarchists. It is his first massive production. At no time does he let pompous detail deaden his invincible vitality...
...lucky his poor wife had died just before he was found out). How Doctor Nye rehabilitated himself against heavy odds-how he protected two young star-crossed lovers in spite of their warring families-how he finally established his innocence even in the eyes of his pompous brother-in-law- is told through some 400 leisurely and amusing pages, spiced with the particular brand of Cape Cod humor that has made Mr. Lincoln a bestseller. The happy ending is just as it ought...
...least one hundred Harvard men have taken him seriously, and their tactics could hardly fail to win that gentleman's approval. The "Harvard Committee of the College Division of the League of Nations Non Partisan Association", must, if it lives up to its name, be a strong, if somewhat pompous, influence on the student political attitude...