Word: pompousness
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...curious than the Willis phenomenon. Senator Watson's reputation is extremely unsavory. The Springfield Republican's 16 reasons for a Hoover campaign in Indiana were references to 16 members of the Watson political crew who have been indicted for crookery in the past four years. But, unlike pompous Senator Willis, easy-going Senator Watson has no pretensions beyond those of a "favorite son." His game is simply to herd the Indiana delegates for delivery to his good friend Vice President Dawes or for barter with other big G. O. P. traders at the convention. Candidate Lowden...
Long since, the Board banned Dawn as "inexpedient," thus drawing from the London Times a pompous twitter: "What is the nature of the inexpedience? . . . The adjective 'political' instantly suggests itself, and a political censorship, in whatever discreet feathers it be dressed is, in England at least, a remarkably ugly bird...
Came British Jail Superintendent Major Dhondy, pompous. Three times, in the name of the British Raj, he called on the revolted prisoners to surrender. Their reply was a tile, deftly hurled, which bruised painfully Jail Superintendent Major Dhondy. "Fire!" he commanded, and before the machine gun ceased to rattle, 16 prisoners had been wounded. Cowed, the desperate nose-nippers surrendered...
...sign of mental infirmity that the pacifist opponents of the R. O. T. C. never try to relate their rhetoric to plausibility or probability, to conditions, facts or prospects or to anything resembling cause and effect. They have rancor and timidity, physical flinching, addled reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this unreason infests the professorial mind, and the men who are given their responsible positions to teach youth to meet life prepared to understand it, deal with it and make...
Surrounded by soldiers, police and sombre-coated civilians, President Paul Doundouriotis, 72, puppet president of Greece, descended the steps of the town hall in Athens, well satisfied with his address to the Congress of Mayors, pompous, rotund, lean, from every municipality in the Republic of the Hellenes, otherwise Greece...