Word: pompousness
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...time has come, I think, for someone to launch a vigorous protest against the use of "brass hats" in the derogatory way it is usually employed in your magazine. You always seem to imply that all "brass hats" are pompous, narrow-minded obstructionists and that the war would get on much better if they were all somehow done away with. Your articles so often evoke a picture of some comparatively junior officer knocking down rows of admirals or generals and literally pounding a new idea into their heads, and your writers seem to think that nothing progressive is ever done...
...life, and to his own account of it. In his Memoirs he reduced the ardent youthful romance that his father frowned upon to an immaculate antithesis: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son"-and thereafter lived without love till the day he died. But the plump, pompous little man with the snuffbox and the button mouth had his work (the Decline and Fall took him 15 years), his noble friends, his admirers, his elegant, discreet amusements, his intimations of immortality. Small wonder if, as somebody remarked, he frequently mistook himself for the Roman Empire...
...flimsy story, based on "Mayering," depicts a pompous fop of a Crown Prince (played by Stockwell) who wins the love of Marinka, a Viennese debutante (played by Miss Roberts). Whenever the feminine half of the combination appears on stage, the show becomes agreeable and the singing light and pleasant. Without Miss Roberts, "Marinka" would not have dared open...
...Scandal Whatever. Editor Owens has kept the adventures of the fox as Caxton printed them. Again Reynard tempts pompous, grasping Brown the Bear to search for honey in a split log, knocks out the wedges and traps him fast. Again he steals the sausage from sniveling Poodle Wackerlos, shows that Wackerlos stole the sausage from treacherous Hintze the Tomcat, who in turn stole it from the miller's wife. Again he cheerfully seduces Isengrim's willing wife and later pleads: "One thing I want credit for, however, and that is keeping quiet about the business. If Isengrim...
...During a pompous colonel's illustrated lecture on aircraft recognition, a soldier slips in a blow-up of a scantily clad girl, converting the lecture into a bedlam of double-entendres ("This model is stripped for action...