Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot by Adolf Hitler's orders to make things easier for the Party (TIME, July 9, 1934), some 120,000 Germans were mobilized last week in Berlin. Announced Berlin Deputy Party Leader Goerlitzer who made the arrangements: "We prefer to demonstrate in intimate simplicity. We scorn to stage a pompous and festive program...
...Helena, Mont., having exhausted nearly every other way of getting out of the county jail, Trusty Louis Francis picked up a prison telephone, got a wire to the sheriff, said in a pompous voice, "This is Governor Frank Cooney. You let Louis Francis out now. I just pardoned him." It did not work...
Meanwhile George, Duke of Kent-"P. G." to his intimates-was up and about London, reported by the Daily Express to have had "the thrill of a lifetime." This occurred when H. R. H. descended into an underground station accompanied by pompous Lord Ashfield, chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, and proceeded to drive an ordinary subway train up to 40 m.p.h. Suddenly the automatic signals went from green to red, the Duke of Kent removed his hand from the "dead man's handle" and the trainload of ordinary passengers, who had no idea who their motorman...
...last on the Rutherford plantation. There he lived contentedly, preaching and farming, until his marriage to a bad Negro woman from town lost him the respect of his neighbors, earned him the enmity of Birney, the plantation overseer. Only because Old Rutherford hated his degenerate sons and his pompous overseer could Mose remain on the plantation after he had driven Birney away from his cabin. But even Rutherford's protection could not save him when Birney sent another Negro to pick a fight with him, then blackmailed Mose's best friend to refute his claim of self-defense...
...originality dismayed the Dukes, they did appreciate technical excellence. Typical is Professor A. Makovsky's amusing Posing for a Portrait (see cut). Longtime instructor in the St. Petersburg Academic Art School, able Illustrator Makovsky showed a pompous bourgeois merchant posing stiffly in a chair while his enthralled chambermaid and houseboy gape over a young artist's shoulder. Nicholas II found it delightful. The picture hung long in the Petrograd Winter Palace...