Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this rule is Chicago's WPA orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen in public with it. Hastily recommending a new conductor and a shakeup in personnel, Director Sokoloff left town...
...point out that the net result of a 530-page book by ten famed representatives of pompous and well-financed "progressive education" is just another case of "fuzziness in academic thought" requires either divine arrogance or childlike simplicity...
...magician, hypnotist and manager of a southpaw prizefighter, Melio Bettina of Beacon, N. Y. Last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, 23-year-old Melio Bettina met 32-year-old Tiger Jack Fox of Spokane, Wash, for the light-heavyweight championship of the world (according to the pompous New York State Athletic Commission...
...Conrad's theory that man's history could be written on a postage stamp-he was born; he suffered; he died." No one is sorry that Conrad did not follow his theory. But such pompous chronicles as Salute to Freedom would lend themselves nicely to such condensation...
...position slipped away; members of the third generation turned savagely on their parents when they found that the traditions they inherited did not square with the bitter actualities of life. So his books are full of melodrama: the last descendants of old families lie awake in crumbling houses; pompous parents like Mr. Compson deliver half-drunken lectures to their children; elderly spinsters of gentle birth talk hysterical nonsense to impressionable youngsters; young girls creep through the wisteria vines to meet lovers their parents will not accept; young men split their minds trying to make sense of the hodgepodge of Southern...