Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scream ever since they first skated together in their native Basle three years ago. Frick, whose real name is Werner Groebli, was a student at the University of Zurich. Frack, born Hansruedi Mauch, was studying at a business school. One holiday afternoon they set to burlesquing some of their pompous neighbors who acted as though they owned the rink. Onlookers tittered merrily...
...home in Tokyo, Ambassador Horinouchi's Embassy counselor, big, pleasantly pompous Yakicniro Suma, complemented his chief's words by publicly regretting the U. S. animus, and especially the U. S. Navy's, towards Japan. The toast among young U. S. naval officers, he said, is: "Remember the Panay...
...British censors. A correspondent reported that he had spent ten shillings in taxi fares tracking down the famed pamphlets scattered by the Royal Air Force back of the German lines. He found them finally in the Division of Enemy Propaganda. When he asked for a copy, a pompous official said: "Impossible." Reason: "such intelligence might reach enemy hands...
...happy were the Fair's first four months of operations. It had $4,900,000 in debts. Of these $1,600,000 were bills due to contractors for services and supplies, and $3,300,000 were loans from banks and corporations. Under the amateur guidance of plump, pompous Director...
Author Nicolson's sly habit of poking polite fun at pomposity while paying his respects to pompous bigwigs, made many people wonder just how well Author Nicolson and Diplomat Nicolson got along together. Diplomacy leaves little doubt that Author Nicolson takes Diplomat Nicolson very seriously, that though Author Nicolson resigned from the Foreign Affairs Committee in disagreement with Prime Minister Chamberlain after Munich, Diplomat Nicolson has by no means given up Cabinet hopes...