Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upton Close, pompous radiocaster, Anglophobe, labor-baiter, Red-baiter, whose radio punditing deals as often with fancy as with fact; Merwin K. Hart, insurance lawyer, author, lecturer, admirer of Franco's Spain and scorner of the word "democracy," who once declared: "Tougher products result from a Fascist education"; John T. Flynn, writer, vitriolic and acid-tongued spearhead of the prewar, now defunct, America First Committee...
...knew even better than the American Legion's pompous John Stelle, who trumpeted a blast of criticism at him, that there were delays in filing claims, that medical records were not on hand, that much of his personnel was incompetent. He shut Stelle up with a curt report outlining shortcomings of which even Stelle was not aware. He doggedly applied himself to his business, building an organization which he hopes can do the job. In his flat Missouri twang, he said briefly: "I'm not worried...
...outburst touched off a barrage of letters to the London Times. Pudgy, pompous Lord Brabazon wrote that he thought he saw a painting of what seemed to be broken iron castings. Matisse had titled it A Recumbent Woman. (Huffed Lord Brabazon, "We shall soon be told that a multiple drill has sex appeal.") Two letter writers thought Picasso's pictures should be kept from children. Another critic was not so worried. He reported overhearing a six-year-old, who had intently studied a swollen, mysterious Picasso abstraction, comment: "Why, there's a hippopotamus...
...effect, Francesca begins to remember a happy childhood followed by years of frustration. Her schoolmistress beats her across the knuckles; her bad-tempered but handsome guardian (James Mason) loves music but hates women; her first suitor, an American saxophone player, proposes marriage but lets her get away; a pudgy, pompous portrait painter merely proposes that she run off with him to a tumbledown villa in Italy...
What is to the point, however, is that the student will be wrong. Faure's music has an individuality of communication, an absence of pompous hokum and fraud which makes it highly valuable in these and days. It is wholly charming and completely sincere...