Word: pompousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their acid comments, Low's cartoons have usually had an owlish, good-natured air that kept them from being really bitter. He presented people as stupid and self-righteous rather than wicked or frightening. For years his satire has been summed up in Colonel Blimp, a pathetically pompous old walrus who inhabits a Turkish bath and periodically sounds off. "Gad, sir," exclaims the Colonel, in a cartoon called Onward, Colonel Blimp! "the reason our government is always getting kicked in the pants is that it doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried...
...jobs in Cleveland, San Francisco, Denver, everything from news happenings to a synopsis of his novel (a stupendous family chronicle from Jeremiah I to Jeremiah IV), from election returns to querulous data on his wife's raising the baby on candy, from denunciations of automobiles and airplanes to pompous credos favoring Democracy. Typical of his talent is his alibi for hanging around his Kansas City landlady's daughter: "When a man denies himself all feminine companionship," reflects Homer, "he is likely to warp his cosmos...
Three years ago pompous Manager Gatti-Casazza resigned, retired to Italy with his wife. As General Manager he was succeeded by Edward Johnson, a trim, smiling man of progressive ideas who promised a new era in operatic production. Among other heralds of the new day came slick-haired Russian Balletmaster George Balanchine. With his youthful American Ballet corps, Balanchine was expected to give Metropolitan audiences a taste of what up-to-date operatic ballet was really like...
...edition of April 11, the editor of the Harvard Law Review chides you in pompous style for writing that "The California Supreme Court handed down a verdict . . .", says you should have said that the Court "reached a decision...
...Rochas was already back in Paris. According to the indictment, what he had apparently done was to import both dresses and mannequins, and the mannequins were told to say the dresses belonged to them; thus M. Rochas avoided the duty. Last week on the door of the pompous Rochas shop on East 6th Street was a receivership notice. Left to answer to a conspiracy indictment for smuggling was only the shop's manager, M. Guy de Font-Joyeuse, whom the mannequins call "Papa...