Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible, let there be animals! Could there be camels in Carmen? Elephants in Pelleas et Melisande? Hardly. Of all operatic staples, Aïda does best outdoors. Consequently, Aïda's familiar tunes ring sweetly every summer in many a U. S. stadium. Biggest and most pompous ever was Cleveland's last summer, in which more than 1,000 performers (including the animals) figured (TIME, Aug. 10). Washington had an Aïda last fortnight, presented by that seasoned Aïda-man, Maestro Alfredo Salmaggi. In New York's big Polo Grounds Maestro Salmaggi presented...
Prior to the formation of the new Cabinet, the Chamber and Senate elected their own officers last week. Since the Senators had lost their Speaker, because of his being chosen President of France, they had to cast about for someone new. chose pompous, scholarly 68-year-old Senator Jules Jeanneney, Radical Socialist. The Chamber as a matter of course re- elected by a landslide vote of 50440-50 tall. bold, hot-tempered Ferdinand Buisson, Socialist. Famed for his zesty anecdotes, Deputy Buisson is the political darling of Marseilles (as Premier Herriot is of Lyons). He presides over the Chamber loudly...
Prolixity, in fact is the word which best sums up "Three Loves," the words are too long; the sentences are pompous, and the length of the tales as a whole defeats any impression of unity which the reader might draw from it. These defects tend to obscure the genuine merits of a novel which has a strong grip on the analysis of character, a flair for sombre narrative, and an ability to reveal the clash of kindred temperaments, which is a more welcome heritage from the author of "Jude the Obscure," than the allusive and deliberate style...
...something, one cocktail apiece, perhaps. Mr. Cothem, however, as the inebriated Smythe, and he remains drunk throughout the play, was an endless source of humor. Amy Loomis, as Elizabeth Tweedle, his co-merrymaker, adds the crown of light amusement. Her sister, serene and reticent, played by Miss Ray; the pompous lawyer, George Appleway, played by Mr. Bowker; the ultra-coldness of Miss. Pointeyter, as the retainer; and the perfect butler, Mr. Lucas, are able and amusing types of the sophisticated Victorianism which forms the background for "Murray Hill...
...Theologians. News of them reached the U. S. last week. They discussed their attempts to rescue the Modern Man. Chief feature of the conference was a one-act play presented by the British delegates, in which the Modern Man is approached by a Fundamentalist with an enormous Bible, a pompous Anglo-Catholic, a cordial member of the Buchman Groups, a Modernist who cuts most of his Bible into little bits. None succeeds in rousing Modern Man from his sleep. At last comes a Barthian. He is successful...