Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exactly Nazis, the blatant bravos of Estonia call themselves Front Soldiers, wear rakish "front caps." Last week in mellow Dorpat, "the Estonian Athens" (it has a university), scurrilous Front Soldiers had fun with pompous President Jann Tonisson of Estonia...
...suspense on conclusion of that Conference," reads Article III of Il Patto a Quattro, the signatories "reserve the right to re-examine these questions between themselves . . . with a view to insuring their solution through the appropriate channels." That Dictator Mussolini has no patience with and no confidence in pompous, teeming Conferences is a hard, pragmatic fact -of special importance as the World Economic Conference meets (see p. 16). In his speech to the Senate. Il Duce scored "sentimental fears" that...
...different companies which failed, successively for about $90,000,000, but publishing was his real forte. At the age of 25 he founded the Financial Times, then bought The Sun. His greatest success was a weekly which with a flash of inspiration he called John Bull. Pudgy, pompous, curly-haired, Horatio Bottomley looked like John Bull. To millions of Britons he was John Bull. His editorial policies paralleled those of long-faced William Randolph Hearst: sensationalism, flaring headlines, ultranationalism. Again like Hearst, he kept a convenient goat to blame for everything: in his case...
...Street in the end ovades the law, or is gently rapped ever the knuckles, there is reason for feasting and merry-making. Enough that for a day or a month the House of Morgan will stand before the world shorn of its awful respectability, its soundness, its pompous righteousness. For awhile at least, the mighty will be on trial in a position exposed to the insinuations and questionings of the vulgar people with whose money he has been playing...
...Mustard Flag!" President von Hindenburg's pompous State Secretary, Dr. Otto Meissner was once secretary to "the George Washington of the German Republic," its first President, Friedrich Ebert (died 1925). One day last week Dr. Meissner picked up his telephone, heard a woman's voice weak with terror, the voice of Widow Ebert, a plump, pink, normally happy hausfrau...