Word: pompousness
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...jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted as different witnesses saw it. Revolver shots ring out from the orchestra. The jury believes any story. The pompous judge makes no decision, pounds his hammer for the next case on the docket...
...generation after generation statesmen and monarchs have mounted the grand curving stair of Londonderry House to pompous festivities in the historic rooms above. The present 7th Marquess of Londonderry is also Viscount Castlereagh. Prominently in Londonderry House hangs a portrait of his ancestor of whom Thomas Moore riddled venomously...
...believer in "scientific" history, or in the Carlylean doctrine of heroes either, he has made his book a judicious blend of historical analysis and biography. His lucid irony does not prevent him from stating many a downright unusual opinion. Of Metternich (whom he calls a pompous prig) he says: "His fundamental political principle was simple, that the Powers that be are ordained of God, and must therefore be supported on pain of impiety. The fact that he was the chief of the Powers that be gave to this principle, in his eyes, a luminous self-evidence which it might otherwise...
...well into the Marie Dressler type of role. The Wiggs children speak with similar accents, do not look at the camera, and are quite charming. True love is wholesomely portrayed by the winsome Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor, who appeared together in David Harum. The affection of the pompous Mr. Stubbins (W. C. Fields) for Miss Bazy (Zazu Pitts) may be placed on a somewhat lower level, for Mr. Stubbins has to be lured toward the altar by the combined agencies of a matrimonial society and the succulent cooking of Mrs. Wiggs. In a picture of this type, plot means...
Early this year in Washington, Emil Hurja and Theodore Huntley began to bet. Mr. Hurja, a prime political dopester in his own right, is Postmaster General Farley's second-in-command at Democratic National headquarters. "Ted" Huntley, a pompous little ex-Washington correspondent with an amazing bass voice, is the arch-Republican secretary of Pennsylvania's arch-Republican Senator David Aiken Reed...