Word: pompousity
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Last week, when the Westminster was staged at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, there was a turnout of 2,738 dogs (89 breeds), including many refugees from England (see p. 27). One, a pompous little Pekingese, which had waddled ashore only the day before, had scarcely lost his sea legs. Another, an ugly bulldog, had cost his owner a reputed $12,000 at a recent London sale. In the rings were many other strange-sounding foreign breeds : Keeshonden, kuvasz, komondorock,* Rottweilers, Salukis, Pulis, papillons and bouviers des Flandres. But they were outnumbered by dachshunds, Scotties, beagles, collies, terriers, spaniels...
Listeners-in on the Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin's radio program last Sunday heard as pompous and ominous a whoop-de-do as ever came out of Royal Oak, Mich. The hour began, as usual, with soft religious music. Then, instead of the accustomed rabble-rousing baritone, came the voice of an announcer urging listeners to tell their friends to tune in. More music. Then the announcer, in almost a fall-of-Warsaw manner: "I am instructed to say: Father Coughlin will not address you today." Again music, followed by: "I am instructed to say: Pay no heed...
...Buenos Aires, the night before the U. S. plan for a 21-Republic agreement was to be broached, Mr. Hull and his glacial, able, pompous Assistant Secretary, Sumner Welles, sat brooding in their rooms in Alvear Palace. Mr. Hull had decided that some other nation must present the U. S. plan, and do the "fronting" for it, as a mere matter of strategy. It was 10:30 p. m. Protocol-minded Mr. Welles insisted nothing could be done that night. But to his horror, his worried chief shoved his feet into carpet slippers, his pajama coat dangling over his trousers...
Punctual, enthusiastic, pompous, slightly mischievous, Duroure has taken a new lease on life since the war began. He had been only a colonel near retirement age. "What wonderful luck," he thinks, to have been at the very age - between 50 and 65 - at which generals are made. Now he wants an Army Corps. Backed by the dubious Gurau, the rising radical young Deputy who in a previous volume subtly sold out to the oil interests and is now a cabinet minister, Duroure entertains two visiting deputies by provoking an artillery duel which goes wrong, nearly turns his little party into...
...scream ever since they first skated together in their native Basle three years ago. Frick, whose real name is Werner Groebli, was a student at the University of Zurich. Frack, born Hansruedi Mauch, was studying at a business school. One holiday afternoon they set to burlesquing some of their pompous neighbors who acted as though they owned the rink. Onlookers tittered merrily...