Word: pompousness
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...great U. S. Steel subsidiary. Two previous Carnegie presidents (Charles Michael Schwab and William Ellis Corley) succeeded to the U. S. Steel presidency. Furthermore, Mr. Hughes is only 53, would not have to retire until 1948. Tall (6 ft. plus), with thin brown hair, careful in dress and somewhat pompous in bearing, Mr. Hughes frequently walks the four miles between home and office, makes the trip in about an hour and five minutes. He considers his wife "51% of our private corporation." A remarkable Hughes trait is an unbending and unbroken silence on the matter of his first given name...
Most U. S. school children would probably find the Brecht-Weill opus perplexing. The pattern is complex: Lindbergh's Flight is a cantata for orchestra, chorus and soloists. Lindbergh, represented by a tenor, describes himself, his preparations, his emotions during the flight, in a pompous, swaggering manner quite unlike the popular U. S. idea of him. The chorus exhorts him as he starts, exalts him in a hymnlike way at the finish. During the flight a baritone radios all ships to watch out for him. A bass solo, with the smoothest music in the cantata, urges him to sleep...
...holiday tale as this he dutifully wrinkles his forehead, doubtfully wonders about such dark questions as the borderline of sanity, the worth of democracy, Good & Evil. Walpole devotees consider him a good if not a great novelist, a battler on the side of the angels; caustic critics call him pompous and sentimental. Walpole is supposed to be represented in Somerset Maugham's recent Cakes and Ale by "Alroy Kear." snobbish, successful but second-rate English man of letters...
Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of the late Viscount Curzon (the most pompous, most punctilious Viceroy that India ever had), fairly yelled from a public platform last week (while championing the New Party founded by her husband Sir Oswald Mosley...
...flair for writing about adolescents. It tells about a boy who lives in just such a frame house as millions of U. S. boys live in and who diverts himself like these other millions but who has a hard time because his pranks get on the nerves of his pompous father (Lewis Stone). The combat between father and son reaches a climax when the mother leaves home and sets up a separate establishment with her son. Then the family is reunited by the arbitration of a friendly doctor. There are sentimental stretches in Father's Son, but it is effective...