Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government founded the National Bank, with Germans in charge, and let them issue banknotes for a consideration. Belgians were next in favor and only this spring did the King of Kings give his Belgian Treasurer-General (in charge of customs) notice and bounce the leading German banker in Persia, pompous Herr Doktor Horschitz-Horst. The National Bank then became 100% Persian under a Director who. besides being His Majesty's personal favorite, has thoroughly studied banking methods abroad. His Excellency Riza Ghuli Khan Amir Chosrowi...
...hangs forward over Adolf Hitler's brow was seen to have been neatly pomaded back. Smack!-Dictator Mussolini, now all smiles after shaking hands with effusive vigor, flung his left arm around Herr Hitler in a half embrace. Meanwhile the second German plane coasted in. and out bustled pompous Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath with a staff of high-collared experts. After ear-splitting national anthems. Mussolini linked his arm with Hitler's and led him toward a waiting motorboat, speaking German with fair fluency to a guest who speaks nothing else. As a disciple should. Chancellor...
...third day brought the showdown. The motor makers were satisfied with the compromise arranged but the A. F. of L. leaders held out, particularly Organizer Collins who, rather than pompous President Green, was the backbone of Labor's push. When the A. F. of L. men went to the White House for a final conference General Johnson said: "This is the worst situation I have ever encountered. This is the end; now it's yes or no." At 7:30 p. m. the Laborites left the White House with an agreement reached...
...years apart, are epochal in the life of Raoul Dufy. In 1895, one of nine children of a bourgeois family in Havre, he first began to paint as relaxation from clerking in an importing firm. In 1900 he went to Paris, studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under pompous Père Léon Joseph Bonnat. In 1905, he saw for the first time Henri Matisse's canvas Luxe, calme et volupté. "Confronted by that picture," he said, "I understood all the new reasons for painting." He immediately joined the famed Matisse group (Derain, Braque, Rouault...
...propaganda might have some temporary effect on business. First storm-warning was the advent of a new master at Berthold's school, famed both for its sound scholarship and liberal atmosphere. The new master, a Nazi, disapproved of liberalism, disliked Jews, hated anyone who poked fun at the pompous rodomontades of his Leader. Soon he and Berthold were at daggers drawn. As the Nazi flood crept higher, Martin Oppermann saw that the Jews would have to look for an ark. Almost too late he arranged a humiliating merger with his Christian rival. And then things really began to happen...