Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion was the state visit of paunchy, pompous Senhor Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, to big, soldierly President Agustin P. Justo of Argentina. In 1933 President Justo paid a call on President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro which was notably successful in furthering trade and tourist traffic between the two countries. Now with suggestions from the Silver Jubilee in London, and a few original ideas of her own. Argentina was set to give her Brazilian neighbors a return welcome they would not soon forget...
...Great, still have any doubts about the capabilities of Elisabeth Bergner, should find them allayed by this picture. Purposely designed to exhibit her extraordinary versatility, it becomes a sort of steeplechase of the emotions in which, as Gemma, a strangely sophisticated yet completely unworldly waif married to a pompous, self-centred young musical genius, Actress Bergner is called upon to take more spiritual hurdles than occur in any normal lifetime. The hazards of Gemma's career are indicated in the first scene by the fantastic means she uses for walking in on a conventional British family having...
Second came after Laval left Moscow, arrived at Warsaw to represent France at the funeral services for the late great Marshal Pilsudski, who had been rated Germany's best friend in Poland (see p. 23). There transpired the amazing scene of Germany's pompous Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring trotting after Laval. He would, he hinted, like to talk. Woodchuckish M. Laval pretended not to understand. General Göring then politely requested a conversation, which M. Laval granted at the Air Minister's hotel, for three hours. Loquacious Göring had nothing...
Among the 2,000 who reverently followed the remains of Louis Wiley out of Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El last week, few felt the rabbi's eulogy was unduly exaggerated. For Louis Wiley, the undersized, dynamic and somewhat pompous business manager of the New York Times, was not only an extraordinary newspaperman but one of the kindliest individuals his profession ever produced...
With its setting in a small Wyoming town of the early 1900's, the story centers around the difficult situation of a young man named Ben Harvey, chosen as a dark horse candidate to compete for prosecuting attorney against the pompous Judge Rigby (Berton Churchill), father of the girl with whom he is in love. The ensuing contest results in a break-up of the love affair, leaving the audience in suspense as to the outcome. But in the end the difficulty is patched up in an unexpected but delightful manner. The antics of Stepin Fetchit add considerably...