Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ahead 50% over 1939 in the past six months. This was done in spite of the fact that during the past 40 years the pure food & drug laws, the Federal Trade Commission, the American Medical Association have forced the company to water down its once extravagant claims to a pompous nothingness. Current label: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted." As for Lydia Gove, whose interests also include a $250,000 investment in the Howard Johnson ice cream & restaurant chain, her feud with the Pinkhams...
...mark of the Thibaults is a strong, blocky jaw and a flair for dominance. At first there are three-Jacques, his older brother Antoine, their widowed father. Father Oscar is a pious, pompous, severe, uncomprehending and walled-in old man who hides in his heart a mortal fear of death, who snatches at straws of immortality by devoting himself to good works. Jacques is a rebellious, brooding, high-strung adolescent, destined to seek feverishly the meaning of his own life. Antoine is an egoistic, hard-minded doctor, devoted to his work and proud of being a man of action. Theirs...
...from him. Evidently it is not only one of Poulenc's best works, getting away to a certain extent from the narrowness of Les Six and the ragtime of the twenties, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of music as well. It starts out with a pompous Handelian little theme, which is quickly broken down, so my informant says, into a vein of jocosity, busy chattering strings, and short reiterated little figures, (a trick used very successfully by Strawinsky in his recent symphony), And throughout the work there is a good deal of musical wisecracking--banal tunes, whizzing themes...
...pretty young lady named Liberty Jones is very ill in the home of her Uncle Sam, an amiable but confused businessman. She is menaced by Three Shirts of Brown, Black and Red hue, who keep appearing on the balcony outside. No remedy for her has been found by four pompous doctors called Medicine, Letters, Divinity and Law. At length, however, Liberty is raised from her sickbed, loved and defended by Tom Smith, a very high-flying aviator...
...Symphony was more worth bothering about than the Mahler Symphony, although the fact that its melodies are weaker, less distinguished, and less surehanded than those of the later symphonies will probably cause its rejection. But in no way does it merit Cui's contemptuous epithets of "rough and commonplace. . . . pompous and trivial . . . neither good nor bad." It is fun to listen to, and that is more than can be said for a good deal of the stuff that is perpetrated in concert-halls today...