Word: pompousness
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...County Chairman, adapted from oldtime Slangster George Ade's play produced in 1903, Chairman Rogers makes his law partner a candidate for prosecuting attorney to oppose the pompous rascal who stole the woman Rogers loved in his youth. Complications arise from the fact that the Rogers candidate (Kent Taylor) loves the opponent's daughter (Evelyn Venable...
Because it is a final gesture of a vain, pompous society to give a rich man an expensive funeral, a poor man a box in a field: a last earthly proof of the snobbery and hypocrisy of civilized social structure...
...islands be given their freedom as soon as it could be conveniently arranged. Soon most of the islands' 12,000,000 people began crying in their eight languages and 87 dialects that freedom would be immediately convenient. Year after year they voiced their polyglot appeal, gave their pompous little brown-skinned politicos hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend the winter comfortably in Washington agitating for freedom...
Last week the Bolshevik frontier guards glared at a pompous, obviously capitalistic person who came chugging across the frontier River Dniester, made bold to land on Soviet soil. "You can't land." they told him. "Go back...
...pompous person drew himself up, sputtered in Rumanian for some minutes. "He says that the Kingdom of Rumania and the Soviet Union have recognized each other." explained an interpreter. "He says he is the Minister Plenipotentiary of King Carol and that this is his diplomatic passport...