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Word: pompously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quickly realizes that the head hood is unchanging. Gabin emerges from his cores with his usual aplomb and his gloriously rumpled deadpan intact. He is the only criminal around who can slap everybody in sight, including two lovely ladies, without ever appearing to be anything more than a pompous but lovable businessman a little out of sorts...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: Grisbi | 11/22/1960 | See Source »

Like the professor of The Blue Angel, Albinus, a middle-aged Berlin art dealer, is pudgy, pompous and naive, a kind of pachyderm in a panic whose downfall is chilling precisely because a sardonic hilarity bubbles continuously through the pathos. In the velvety darkness of a movie theater, Albinus (no last name) is hypnotized by the usherette's "pale, sulky, painfully beautiful face.'' Margot is one of the daughters of the poor who have learned the market quotations on fair white bodies. Albinus, respectably and dully married, is enthralled by her, not because she is earthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pachyderm in a Panic | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

Josiah Hoyt was a pompous, puffed-up railroad executive who managed to lose all his own money, much of his wife's considerable fortune, and sulked for two years before he finally died at the dinner table. He sat there cooling for quite a while before his wife noticed the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bankbooks & Backgrounds | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

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