Word: pompousity
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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...
...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...
While these things were going on in China last week, callow Nationalist officials prattled of grandiose schemes. Most pompous was that of Wang Peh-chun, Minister of Communications. With his department $700,000,000 in debt, he propounded a "General Plan on Communications." He would spend $10,000,000 developing long distance telephone service; would build 77 radio stations. He thought $150,000 would build the radio stations, $1,000,000 operate them. More magnificent in plans, he proposed to build 60 locomotives, 150 passenger coaches, 1,300 freight cars. He would establish flying routes between Peking and half...