Word: pompous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strikingly different from the nonchalance of Old Louis Lumière was the air of grave and pompous consequence with which King Vittorio Emmanuele of Italy and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini proceeded to inaugurate, at Frascati, near Rome, last week The International Institute of Educative Cinematography...
...parson may be busy enough christening and confirming, but like as not the christened child has no right to the name, the confirmed is no longer the virgin she should be. There was always a new suspicious twist in the affairs of the carpenter, the fishermen, the doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm at sea, would no doubt lose his sweetheart to the steady carpenter. But Petra married Oliver in spite of the gossip, and bore five children. Of course the brown-eyed boys might belong to Consul Johnsen, wealthy shipper...
...little pointed chin. She concealed her slenderness in an embonpoint of drapery, revealed the toes of her slippers. Sir Joshua painted her against an expanse of foliage. Her parents paid him about $1,050. It meant nothing to debutante Betty. When she went home she called Sir Joshua "a pompous little man." Later she became Lady Cavendish, presented her Lord with eleven children, died...
...Spencer Churchill, rubicund, jovial and a smart vote getter (see col. 3). The prize litter was called by scurrilous correspondents "Jix's Pride." That is to say, the squealing piglets belong to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home affairs, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, tall, pompous, correct, and usually frock-coated; but by no means heedless of the ballot pulling power of pigs. Mr. Churchill's piggery is at Westerham; and Sir William's nestles on his Sussex estate, Newick Park. Both are scorned as mere "gentlemen's pig pens" by shrewd, onetime...
...audience shifted in their seats. On the platform back of him a dozen foreign surgeon-guests looked inquisitive, puzzled, amused. All waited for Dr. Martin to support his statement with statistics; he supplied none. After the day's session the surgeons buzzed at each other with pompous cynicism. Quotable comments...