Word: pompousity
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...whom a rabbi (Fritz Leiber) wants to marry and spends 15 years wandering about as Joe The Fool ("Yoshe Kalb"). Critics admired bits like a graveyard dance by an idiot girl and a candlelit trial of Joe The Fool for bigamy before 70 rabbis but found the rest dull, pompous, obscurely symbolical. After three nights. Mr. Frohman closed his first production in 22 years with an old man's sigh of dismay...
...dragged out of the oratorical closet and fitted to the bow. And very rightly, too. These social attitudes are hard to build up and equally hard to hold; they are well worth emphatic support. But a closer examination of Governor Rolph, the man, would have elicited fewer surprised and pompous tut-tuts. Quite simply, the governor is an amiable nit-wit whose capacities as an administrator were taxed to the utmost when running a city government and are hopelessly inadequate to the complicated job of manipulating the machinery of a state. Though his term contains one bright gem which made...
Only Yesterday (Universal). John Boles herein occupies a role which demonstrates some of the dangers of absentmindedness. A pompous young lieutenant, at a country club dance, meets an impressionable Virginia belle (Margaret Sullavan), promptly seduces her, then goes to France without bothering to say goodbye...
...based on fact "in no sense other than purely creative." Commander Hartley (Blaine Cordner), an affable, scout-masterish publicity hound, is in such a glow over U. S. annexation of Antarctica that he is not aware his men call him a tinplate hero behind his back, or that his pompous planting of flags and food caches has consumed precious time which might prevent the relief ship from getting through the fast-knitting ice. When radio messages from the ship abruptly cease, he takes to futile bawling and sulking in his private cubbyhole. His shillyshallying in the face of a near...
...tradition demands, Glovemaker Collett, though elected last week, will not assume office until Lord Mayor's Day, Nov. 9, must spend at least ?3,000 to please the London populace by staging that pompous, freakish annual pageant, "The Lord Mayor's Show," plus ?3,000 for the Lord Mayor's banquet. Paid an annual salary and allowance of ?50,000, the Lord Mayor of London normally spends some ?30,000 of it on civic entertainment during his year in office...