Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first issue of this year's Advocate shows the well-known faults, and also the well-known virtues of Harvard's aesthetic menagerie and citadel of the arts. Its cleverness leans towards the inconsequential, and its seriousness towards the pompous. Its two best pieces are written by men who have left their undergraduate days far behind them. But it is still good reading, and, except for one item, can hardly be accused of dullness...
...preposterous part. As for Lana Turner, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast (Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, etc.), they are as wooden as their roles. Hyde, heckling Jekyll in the mirror, probably sums it all up best. Says he: "How did such a dull, pompous ass like you ever think of anything as charming as this...
...bearded Judas emerges as a shifty, bootlicking, debt-ridden chiseler, and a onetime lover of Mary Magdalene. High Priest Caiaphas is a pompous, bull-like prelate, Pilate an ineffectual figure. In a rather too pat invention, the "good thief" crucified along with Jesus is no thief but a revolutionist whose daughter is a Christian. The miracles, and the appearance of angels at the tomb of Jesus, are reported matter-of-factly...
This opinion was enough for one veteran Roosevelt-hater, flashy, pompous Correspondent John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News, who wrote a dispatch that certain "Senators" (he meant Mr. Tobey) now knew that the President had permitted the "escorting" of British ships to convoy rendezvous, using the Neutrality Patrol of Navy and Coast Guard boats. Next morning Mr. Roosevelt authorized Secretary Stephen T. Early to announce: "The President . . . thought the author of the story had very cleverly woven the longtime historic policy of the United States into a story which is a deliberate...
Moved to investigate his new-found property and ferret out the union leaders who hanged him, dyspeptic J. P. disguises himself as a clerk in his shoe department. He finds out a lot he never knew about people who have to work for a living. A pompous section manager (Edmund Gwenn) rules him with acidulous tyranny. A comely young clerk, Mary Jones (Jean Arthur), tries to teach him the tricks of the trade, lends him 50? when she interprets his remark about never eating lunch to mean that he is broke...