Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buenos Aires, the night before the U. S. plan for a 21-Republic agreement was to be broached, Mr. Hull and his glacial, able, pompous Assistant Secretary, Sumner Welles, sat brooding in their rooms in Alvear Palace. Mr. Hull had decided that some other nation must present the U. S. plan, and do the "fronting" for it, as a mere matter of strategy. It was 10:30 p. m. Protocol-minded Mr. Welles insisted nothing could be done that night. But to his horror, his worried chief shoved his feet into carpet slippers, his pajama coat dangling over his trousers...