Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sophistication out of which Philip Barry fashioned the best comedy of the 1928-29 theatrical season has not, in translation to the screen, been exchanged for the crude, stuffy plushes of Hollywood naivete. Presenting the situation of a youth engaged to marry an heiress but unwilling to accept the pompous responsibilities of great wealth, the story and its spirit might easily have been suffered to lapse into the Poor Little Rich Girl stereotype. When Johnny Case, deserting Julia Seton simply so he can have a holiday, is followed to Paris by Julia's little sister, a typical talkie...
Irish Guardsmen at the Tower bought a big bag of what rooks like. Pompous in his red coat, the eldest Guardsman, bag in hand, surrounded by expectant birds, made a few appropriate remarks, chiefly for the benefit of humans who had gathered to watch. "Sure and our Holy Mither herself, may she bless His Majesty!" cried the old Guardsman, "And Divil take his enemies, bad cess...
Rumanian censorship is famed. The robbery was kept secret for two days, though private apology was made by the Government to Mr. Dewey. On the third day the story leaked out, and in pompous full dress a whole troop of high officials arrived at Mr. Dewey's hotel to make official, abject apology, promise vengeance, restitution...
...despite all the advance notice there was nothing particularly momentous about Pizzetti's public reception last week. Toscanini blessed the Venetian Rondo with his full genius. It was clever, well-made picture music of pompous, aristocratic Venice and of Venice, roistering and plebeian. The audience applauded it cordially and Pizzetti, a little, worried-looking man, took bows from the stage. But on the same program Toscanini had placed Mozart's D Major Symphony. Wagner's Tannhauser overture and the skirling Bacchanale music, Borodin's Prince Igor dances. Because these things had greater substance, Toscanini attained with...
Have you heard the rumor? It's about Miss Primson, the talkative spinster of Plympton Street. You know her, to be sure--she of pompous, pronuncia-mientos and of exquisite euphemisms. They say she is doting. What a pity...