Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scandal Whatever. Editor Owens has kept the adventures of the fox as Caxton printed them. Again Reynard tempts pompous, grasping Brown the Bear to search for honey in a split log, knocks out the wedges and traps him fast. Again he steals the sausage from sniveling Poodle Wackerlos, shows that Wackerlos stole the sausage from treacherous Hintze the Tomcat, who in turn stole it from the miller's wife. Again he cheerfully seduces Isengrim's willing wife and later pleads: "One thing I want credit for, however, and that is keeping quiet about the business. If Isengrim...
...During a pompous colonel's illustrated lecture on aircraft recognition, a soldier slips in a blow-up of a scantily clad girl, converting the lecture into a bedlam of double-entendres ("This model is stripped for action...
Bill Simpson is 6 ft.11 in. tall, lean and hard; he wears splendidly tailored battle jackets and trousers which fit him perfectly. But he is not pompous or dramatic, and is considered to be something like Omar Bradley in fatherly devotion to his troops. Despite his arguments with Patton, he is a great believer in all kinds of machines- especially artillery- which save U.S. lives...
Robert Rice ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, pinstriped, pompous politico, retired after twelve years as an isolationist Senator from North Carolina, announced the formation of a new Nationalist Party. Said he: "The Republican Party is dead and cannot be rejuvenated. . . . Neither of the two major political parties is big enough to hold . . . interventionists and noninterventionists, nationalists and internationalists, Communists and anti-Communists...
...Sheridan, Alexis Smith and Jane Wyman and would-be Husbands John Ridgely, Craig Stevens and Jack Carson, are joined in their already overflowing "bridal" suite by such incongruities as 1) an exuberant Russian lady sniper (Eve Arden), who insists on firing three-gun salutes out the window, 2) a pompous bureaucrat (John Alexander), who is investigating a process for turning soy beans into auto fuel, 3) another bureaucrat (Charles Ruggles), who is too amorous to keep his mind on affairs of state, 4) a G-man, a porter, two chambermaids, five babies, a proudly beavered Orthodox priest. This screen version...