Word: pompousness
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...crush his critics by means foul or fair." To this the loudly pro-Roosevelt New York Post responded : "No President in American history has 'taken' more and taken it with better grace than Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . But let one breath of criticism be directed at these three pompous commentators, and they rush to hide behind the petticoats of 'freedom of the press...
Already Pressagent Michelson has begun his 1936 work. Against such an able adversary, small, pompous Theodore A. ("Ted") Huntley. secretary to Pennsylvania's onetime Senator David A. Reed, whom the Republican National Committee hired last month to run its publicity, will have to hump himself as never before to make any sort of showing...
Most intelligent laymen regard the jargon of lawyers as an obvious trade trick, a professional pig-Latin calculated to obscure otherwise simple matters and impress clients with the indispensability of their services. Fortunately, most of their pompous verbal mumbo-jumbo is harmless tautology. But at least one legal usage- "and/or"-is dangerous nonsense...
...outdone, added Undersecretary of State William Phillips and backed up its delegation with 17 experts. France followed suit by appointing two Cabinet Ministers to her delegation. Thus all hope of an intimate gathering in London was washed out to sea. Only apparent reason for Japan's sending a pompous delegation was that she had been bluffing after all, that she still hoped to negotiate a treaty, if not on the basis of parity at least better than 5-5-3. If so, few doubted that she was mistaken in her guile. The U. S. delegates were not blind...
...their pompous gear the bishops of the Church of England met in London last week to condemn the anti-Jewish policies of Adolf Hitler...