Word: pompous
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Irish Guardsmen at the Tower bought a big bag of what rooks like. Pompous in his red coat, the eldest Guardsman, bag in hand, surrounded by expectant birds, made a few appropriate remarks, chiefly for the benefit of humans who had gathered to watch. "Sure and our Holy Mither herself, may she bless His Majesty!" cried the old Guardsman, "And Divil take his enemies, bad cess...
...despite all the advance notice there was nothing particularly momentous about Pizzetti's public reception last week. Toscanini blessed the Venetian Rondo with his full genius. It was clever, well-made picture music of pompous, aristocratic Venice and of Venice, roistering and plebeian. The audience applauded it cordially and Pizzetti, a little, worried-looking man, took bows from the stage. But on the same program Toscanini had placed Mozart's D Major Symphony. Wagner's Tannhauser overture and the skirling Bacchanale music, Borodin's Prince Igor dances. Because these things had greater substance, Toscanini attained with...
Have you heard the rumor? It's about Miss Primson, the talkative spinster of Plympton Street. You know her, to be sure--she of pompous, pronuncia-mientos and of exquisite euphemisms. They say she is doting. What a pity...
...Chicago Tribune and anti-Italian Austrians of fears that an Austro-Italian alliance is brewing, Chancellor Schober, on his way back to Vienna, crossed the tip of Jugoslavia and was received at Ratkersburg by a pompous representative of Dictator-King Alexander, whose people are avowedly the bitterest enemies of Italians...
Bobby Clark, with his spectacles painted on his face, his trick cane and cigar, amuses those who think that the mock-pompous delivery of big words is funny. He reaches another sense of humor by announcing, before playing the piccolo: "There are only a few of us left." His partner, as usual, is the almost completely silent Paul McCullough, who is impelled by Mr. Clark's incessant talk to bury his head in a desk drawer ("Just getting a breath of fresh air"). These buffoons and Doris Carson, a very personable girl whose adroitness as a tap dancer...