Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pompous Senator George, on whom all clothes look formal, is a grey, humorless, urbane man. He will preside over the committee's deliberations during the grave days that lie ahead. Franklin Roosevelt will be forced to deal directly, week after week, with the man he tried to purge from the Senate in 1938. No one accuses Senator George of being vengeful; but neither is he forgetful...
...drunkard organist, whose life is like a pathetic symphony with a tragic coda. These are the common folk of "Our Town," brought to life you by a sincere and enthusiastic cast. You may find faults; there are moments when Rowland Bishop's Dr.Gibbs is just a little over pompous; there are scenes where Virginia Thoms's Emily Webb tends to excessive bashfulness. But what is important is that this young group has caught the humanism, the joy, the pathos of life and presents it all convincingly...
...opinion thinks uplift is fine, but uplift that makes money is even finer. Last month in Manhattan, amid an outburst of pompous, dead-pan hullabaloo, an uplifting stunt was launched by the National Committee for Music Appreciation, an outfit headed by John Erskine, novelist, musician, guiding light and onetime president of the Juilliard School of Music. The New York branch of the Committee, billing itself in double-page advertisements as "a non-profit organization," announced that it would distribute twelve sets of operatic recordings "at an incredibly small cost!"-$1.75 for three or four records. Last fortnight the same records...
Opposing John McCormack was pompous, earnest Clifton Woodrum of Roanoke, Va., a varnished, white-haired member who has championed economy by opposing all Federal expenditures which do not directly benefit Virginia. Mr. Woodrum's chances were slim: the White House wanted Mr. McCormack...
Ever since the regime of Madero, comedians below the Rio Grande have savagely sniped at pompous Mexican politicos. Famed is Comic Roberto Soto for his feat of kidding Calles' Labor Boss Luis Morones out of office. An oldster now, Soto's wit is not so sharp as it used to be, and he has been supplanted in favor by a thin, big-eyed, loose-jointed youngster of 28, who was christened Mario Moreno, is known throughout Mexico today as Cantinflas...