Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost alone in preferring gold to paper as pocket currency for everyday use are Dutchmen. They like to jingle heavy guilders on each of which is stamped the motto & promise of Queen Wilhelmina's Royal House: "I will maintain!" In The Hague last week pompous Mynheer Doktor Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, President of the Netherlands Bank, mentioned an obvious fact: no "run" to exchange Dutch paper money for gold can possibly perturb the Netherlands Bank. Reason: the entire paper currency of the Netherlands is backed by a gold cover...
...drink outside and the crowd of female clerks at the threshold fell headlong into his arms and the board room. "Hello-hello-hello!" he repeated as he shook girl after girl by the hand. Girls flocked in from all over the building. Annoyed at the delay, pompous R. F. C. Chairman Pomerene finally banged for order...
Guest Norman Hezekiah Davis, Democratic handyman of President Hoover abroad, shared with Host MacDonald the chief honors of having brought Guest Baron Constantin von Neurath, the German Foreign Minister, around from a truculent to a co-operative attitude. When the pallid, pompous Baron reached Geneva last week he carried a proposal for increasing Germany's "defensive armaments'' which struck Messrs MacDonald and Davis as an "alarming document." These proposals they had managed...
...floor leader for five years his only speech was: "I move that the Senate do now adjourn." But the Vice-Presidency and the Mayflower Hotel worked a great change in him. He took his job with utmost seriousness. He ceased to be the friendly backslapper. He began making dull pompous speeches on all public occasions. Declared Vice President-elect John Nance Garner...
...Vastly titillated themselves by going through a pompous rigmarole the result of which was to open the windows of their House for the first time in eight years...