Word: pompousness
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...This man who may remind you of a pompous schoolmaster is Hiram Johnson. He used to be a rip-roaring Progressive Republican. He still votes with them, but he seems to be an extinct volcano. The old gentleman there, with a kindly face-no, not that one; he is Frederick Gillett, who used to be Speaker of the House and has now retired to the dignified bosom of the Senate as a reward for his long and faithful labor in the Republican cause. The other one farther back is Senator Cummins, who used to be a Progressive Republican...
Life. A good place for a small boy with four younger sisters is away from home. The small boy of this book?shown solemnly erect in his Sunday clothes, clutching a prayer book, over the pompous legend,"Henry Havelock Ellis at the Age of Four"?circled the globe with his seafaring father before he was eight. The schools he later attended had no deep influence on his broadened young nature, though he became thoroughly grounded in French, German and Italian, and was not hindered in developing his taste for literature. At 15 he substituted Shelley for the Bible. Goethe...
Some three years ago the jeweled crown of H. M. Augusta Victoria, late Kaiserin of Germany, vanished mysteriously from the Imperial palace, Unter den Linden. Since this pompous trinket of gold and jewels is valued at $875,000, many a detective has been vainly seeking it. Last week a clue was found...
...alone human naturalness, but significant human naturalness. By that token, these Surrys are only soso; just small-town folks with no claims on reserved seats in the grandstand for famed literary characters. But Miss Hull is well worth reading; she gives pleasure. She is precise without being precious or pompous; vivid without being vivacious?or "vital." She is one of the clear-headed people of this verbose world who know the force of the unspoken word...
This particular School for Scandal was directed by Basil Dean, an Englishman of considerable standing in his own community. On this side his reputation as director is rather ragged. In fact many of the critics consider his work inferior. He seems to put a pompous and theatrical feeling into the proceedings; at any rate, he did in this production. The wit of the infallible comedy shone through but dimly...