Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Cassidy's light burned unwaveringly, though under the Journal of Commerce's bushel (circ. 21,000). Other newspapers repeatedly passed her by, hiring "long haired" esthetes to write dull but pompous-sounding critiques...
...Brandwag (Ox Wagon Sentinel) Party headed by burly Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg, who would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand patterned after the old Boer republics'. His spokesmen claim that a victorious Hitler would entrust South Africa's government to the Herenigde, as the largest opposition party, but that if the United Nations win the war, Dr. Malan...
...well-known program of swing music, whose announcements are parodies of pompous program notes, was found to have definite schizophrenic tendencies. It had two distinct types of listener, each enjoying about half the program. One group listened in for swing, missed the point of the pseudoclassic commentary. The other group, vice versa...
Publisher of The People's Voice is Harlem's big (6 ft. 4), pompous ball of fire, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Not a delegate to the convention, 33-year-old Publisher Powell was more talked about than acclaimed. Some said he was a hot shot who would fizzle out in a year. One Negro executive called him "a new and slightly pinko kid who hasn't got his feet wet yet." He was called "a poor imitation of Ralph Ingersoll." His journalism was described as the kind that "just brings down criticism on the heads...
Honest Judge Ferguson found Detroit's graft-ridden officialdom as helpful as a pair of handcuffs. County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea insisted that the smell in the police department was only an embittered woman's imagination-until he was convicted of obstructing justice. Pompous, handshaking Mayor Richard W. Reading professed that all was civic virtue-until he was found guilty of graft. And one of the first men Judge Ferguson indicted in the handbook racket was a policeman assigned to "protect...