Word: pompousity
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...Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. Over half its 10,000 people (many of them unemployed, some dwelling in caves) support the Communists. Yet they are married in the church, have their children baptized, and are buried with a priest blessing the grave and a banner-bearing Communist official paying pompous graveside respects. Last Sunday an old woman peddling the Communist paper L'Unitá was surprised when asked what she and her fellow Communists would do about the church. "Why, I've already been this morning," she said...
...rowdy etchings of James Gillray; he and his bibulous contemporary Thomas Rowlandson had fathered English cartooning. Working above Mistress Humphrey's print shop in Piccadilly where his etchings sold for 18 pence, Gillray had scorched the court of George III with his acid portrayals of spendthrift profligates and pompous politicians. Rowlandson's needle-sharp stylus had deflated many a Regency swell and belle...
Last week Margaret's few close friends flocked by to hear about her trip and perhaps persuade her to do a really sharp imitation of some pompous continental dignitary. But before the girlish giggles began, they still remembered to call her "ma'am," for Margaret is the daughter of the King. No matter how seductively the moon may shine as she drives home from a party, there can be no stolen kisses; a Scotland Yard man is always present to see her indoors; often a lady-in-waiting is at the door, too. As one young Briton remarked...
...soon regretted the decision. He hated the work: getting out the sheet each week, rewriting the prince's pompous, half-literate articles, churning out copy for his own column, "The Diary of a Writer." And though The Citizen whooped it up for Czar and Russia, Dostoevsky found himself in several scrapes with the censors; once he was sent to jail for 48 hours for having violated a bureaucratic regulation...
Finally, the CRIMSON came to bat in the last half of the ninth inning: the evening shadows were lengthening in the sun now turned orange. The first man to the bat was the inspirational leader of the CRIMSON nine, Pompous Prexy Pratt, his face fiushed in the Cadmium sun. He reached first on a walk...