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Word: pompously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sole worthy political foes of the Hepburn Liberals in this election are the Ontario Conservatives. These are led by stolidly handsome and inarticulate The Honorable William Earl Rowe, M. P., chosen disciple of the nearest approach to Herbert Hoover ever produced in Canada, namely pompous Richard Bedford Bennett who as Prime Minister disastrously lost the last Dominion election (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935). Mr. Bennett, having picked Mr. Rowe to achieve high office, had King George V make him a Privy Councilor and groomed him carefully, but quite failed to develop a popular Conservative leader in Ontario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Mitch | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...approval" and which she had intended to leave behind to be sent back to the shops. Chuckling, the Crown Princess and Prince Consort rummaged through their luggage, left the stuff with the apologetic French frontier guards and tucked back into the rumble the Prince's little surprise for pompous Dutch courtiers, a box of exploding cigars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: 23-Lb. Surprise | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...pops its protagonist on the boards naked in all his pompous vanity, groping lubricity, childish craftiness, monetary venality and explosive blasphemy. Author McNally has studied the character of Wagner with an unblinded eye, makes full allowances for the poetic moral license commonly granted artists. The McNally-Lawson Wagner states the morality of an artist very clearly when he confesses that he has been mean, selfish, harsh, unfaithful, ungrateful; but, he says, he has learned his trade so well that no one in the world can teach him anything about music, and he has never allowed the most egregious hardships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Examples show the many different styles worked out by the silversmiths. There is a superb porringer, or "caudle cup," dated 1600 and 1667. This is richly ornamented with large leaves and flowers, while the handles are made from grotesque heads. All this stands plainly for the pompous style of Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

Since then he has run Argentina's foreign affairs without brooking any interference from General Justo. Shrewd as well as pompous, he frequently works 20 hours, smokes 100 cigarets a day-often any brand he can borrow from his aides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Pan-American Party | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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