Word: pompousness
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...senior) card is slipped off and becomes Lord Mayor. Cards slipped off in previous years return to the rank of Aldermen, designated forever after as having "passed the civic chair" (i. e. been Lord Mayor). Last week in London's gloomy but impressive Guildhall there was pompous slipping...
...biography to James Boswell's Life of Johnson, to Herman Melvill's Moby Dick, to Charles Montagu Doughty's Arabia Deserta. The Book of Talbot is a biography of a comparatively unknown man written by his widow. Gravely, not to say solemnly told, it is sometimes pompous but never inane. Authoress Clifton's fierce reverence for her subject does at times succeed in making her manner grand...
Frenchmen, girding themselves to defend their franc and keep it on gold, feel they have need of every weapon. They know that they possess Western Europe's most potent army. Last week their Navy Minister, pompous Georges Leygues, drew deafening Paris cheers with a speech which made British naval experts chuckle...
...tempted beyond my powers. Each reply to that pompous ass, Husband Ritter, has broken down my resistance until I find myself following in the footsteps of Maynard L. Ginsburg (TIME, July 3) and writing my first, last and only communication to any magazine, in order to contribute my mite to the avalanche of criticism he has brought down upon himself by that moronic letter. Freaks, indeed! Down with TIME, then, to make the world safe for Husband Ritter and his ilk. For as long as that splendid magazine exists, there will be appreciative, intelligent and up-to-the-minute freaks...
...exactly Nazis, the blatant bravos of Estonia call themselves Front Soldiers, wear rakish "front caps." Last week in mellow Dorpat, "the Estonian Athens" (it has a university), scurrilous Front Soldiers had fun with pompous President Jann Tonisson of Estonia...