Word: pompousity
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...returned to the courtroom. Defendant Norris had come back. Mrs. Norris and their two boys-J. Frank Jr., 16, home from Culver Military Academy for the excitement, and George Louis, 10-huddled near him. Dexter E. Chipps Jr., 14, stared over at them. Bailiffs and deputy sheriffs stood in pompous readiness to shoot. "The punishment," said Judge Hamilton, "for anyone creating any disturbance or demonstration in this courtroom will be $100 or three days in jail." Then the jury foreman read off the verdict of not guilty...
...ruined Mr. Cicero's water business. He went to Italy and joined the Secret Service. Much of the pompous society he served had dissolved when he returned to Manhattan. He took up his cutlery and went to work again in the inelegant, workaday Evening Post Building. But still his old customers seek him out, and the subject of his greatest achievement still flourishes...
...roused perhaps too late, sent pompous officials about the streets armed with heavy swords. Criers announced that they would cut off the head of any one found making subversive speeches; but, when they passed, the purr of English and Chinese began again...
...Abie's Irish Rose is forsaken for the sublimity of saintliness. Therefore, the lines are written in blank verse, a special musical accompaniment is provided to exalt them still higher. Unfortunately, the play, weighted down by heavy-handed craftsmanship and uninspired poetry, ascends to nothing loftier than pompous platitudinousness. Specimen of the verse: "a magnificent flood of mothers' milk." Sam Abramovitch might as logically have been Hans Schneidewind but for the local box office...
...great deference paid to the orotund school of elocution of which Mr. Jewett is past master Dr. Wangel, the husband of the lady from the sea, alone succeeds in dodging the grand manner and that only on occasion. Jewett, as the Stranger who threatens the Wangels' domesticity, is as pompous and unconvincing of the hollow, haunting eye, as a Falstaff. Professor Arnholm is often a pint-size Jewett, but no matter, the focus is rarely upon...