Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Farm Bureau Federation. In the course of a debate about teacher unionization, Mrs. Roosevelt asserted that, in rural communities, a teacher with an idea always risked the danger of attack by "someone from Mr. O'Neal's organization [here she lowered her voice to a pompous politico gruffiness] saying that it is a very dangerous doctrine!" It brought down the house...
...further denounced and denned Washington's "gobbledygook" language (TIME. April 10). Said "blah"-maddened Maverick in the New York Times Magazine: "First, the word: it is long, sounds foreign, has four stories. You walk up without benefit of elevator. Second, its definition: talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved. ... It is also talk or writing . . . with repetition over & over again, all of which could have been said in a few words...
...ranking designer with his creation of the hobble skirt, later blossomed out as playwright, painter, actor, coiffeur (creator of bobbed hair). Dressmaker to royalty, he came to London in 1912 at the invitation of Margot Asquith, gave a spring showing at No. 10 Downing St. Portly, pompous, dark-skinned Couturier Poiret was an autocratic extrovert, lived like an Oriental potentate in a Paris house bedecked with ibises, parrots, monkeys, half-naked Negro guards. In 1929 he went bankrupt, for a time was a Paris department-store designer at $4 a dress, finally went on the dole...
Half a century ago a pompous, patrician French Army officer, Mercier du Paty de Clam, played a key role in the historic plot against Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Emile Zola's flaming J'Accuse! began "I accuse Colonel du Paty de Clam of having been the diabolical agent...
...recent months Field had listened less to Evans and more to outsiders who wanted the Sun to get in there and scrap with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's archconservative Tribune. Fortnight ago, after Evans' financial columnist, pompous Philip S. Hanna, had labeled the federal ballot for soldiers "a trick to dodge the Constitution," Hanna was summarily fired by Field...