Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite among the 2,388 delegates was a ten-pound Pekingese, Ch. Che-Le of Matsons Catawba, whose family tree dates back to Chinese antiquity. Ch. Che-Le, said to be worth $1,000 a lb., had won eleven minor best-in-shows in 1941. But the pompous little Peke, apparently overconfident, failed to win even best-of-breed...
...than the 77th. Many a citizen made a grim mental note to vote against his Congressman. For many a U.S. citizen it was all too easy to take out his general dissatisfaction on the 77th Congress. To many a citizen, Congress seemed a dreary collection of porcine clowns, of pompous pantaloons, always wrong or greedy or just stupid. Many a citizen remembered the marrow-chilling House draft-extension vote last August of 203-to-202, when one vote saved the nation's Army. Many a citizen remembered that Congress had refused to fortify Guam...
...would be alarmed if the ten great railways radiating from the Capital were cut. He would be hurt every time a statue of him (in the lobby of the New Moscow Hotel, at the head of the stairs at the Moscow University, out at the Agricultural Exhibition, in every pompous spot) was hurt...
Senate Foreign Relations Chief Tom Connally said he was ready to arm merchant ships. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had already urged repeal. Utah's bald, easygoing Senator Elbert D. Thomas came out for repeal. Tennessee's pompous, vest-piped Senator Kenneth D. McKellar introduced a ten-line bill to repeal the Act. Speaker Sam Rayburn predicted that the prohibition against arming U.S. merchant ships would be repealed "after some fighting and scratching around...
...long years, Brooklynites had waited for this moment. Their beloved Dodgers ("Our Bums") had just clinched the National League pennant in Boston. Many another baseball town has gone wild over a pennant victory. But Brooklyn's faithful fans-victims of an inferiority complex provoked by the pompous, pennant-heavy New York Giants and Yankees across the river-burst into a demonstration last week that looked like New Orleans' Mardi Gras, New Year's Eve in Times Square and the 1918 Armistice...