Word: pompous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...faun, a gentleman gambler and a barbaric king, was quite at his best last night as a bishop of the Anglican Church. Until recently, the dramatic tradition of the English stage has tacitly and unalterably ordained that a clergyman of that religious body should invariably be a pompous and platitudinous ass. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Faversham, being men of the world and not mere dramatists, know better; and the gentle, witty, tolerant prelate of Mr. Shaw's fancy and Mr. Faversham's creation is, or should be, one of the really great figures of our contemporary drama. The actor...
...Scarlet Letter" has always seemed to us eminently fitting; yet we had never thought the mere non-Latinist deserved such a brand. But perhaps it is for the benefit of the public. Peter Barnum said the public liked to be fooled; and we certainly fool the public with our pompous scientific degree. Meanwhile, the initiated know that the yellow crow's-foot indicates "not knowledge of science, but ignorance of Latin"; and they wonder even at the steadfastness of tradition...
...Owen Wister contributes a truly admirable article on Dr. Furness, marred only for a moment by a trace of that pompous omniscience which has prompted him in recent years to pose as both Nestor and Mentor to learning. Jeremiah Smith '56 contributes an article on his class-mate Major Herrod, and Professor Wendell a sympathetic notice on E. M. Wheelwright. The editor conclusively proves that distinction and longevity are reserved for Phi Beta Kappa men, and the Man Behind The Graduate's Window makes a witty plea that the College muckraker should understand before he fires...
...Biggers's play is a comedy, but there is in it more than a little of the poignant, the near-tragic, Marie Gilmore, a leading lady, is in love with Billy Kinsman, the butterfly son of a self-made millionaire who of late has been "doing society" with his pompous wife. It becomes the duty of the actress to show this family their foibles, to tear the masks from their faces, to discover them unto themselves as genuinely human beings. This task takes her through the better part of four acts, sees her at one point a comedy character...