Word: florid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the break came. At No. 39 Broadway detectives discovered a portly, florid, mustached man who seemed to be the spit & image of the forger bank tellers remembered...
...Great John L. (United Artists) is chiefly notable as Bing Crosby's first effort as a producer. It dutifully records the Boston Strong Boy (Greg McClure) as he rises to fame and florid magnanimity - through his unhappy marriage with a betighted showgirl (Linda Darnell), his un happy love for a Boston girl (Barbara Britton), his still unhappier fondness for training on Black Velvet (champagne & stout) and the inevitable consequences at the hands of Jim Corbett. After that came his long, pitiful period as an alcoholic has-been and his ultimate salvation - with the Boston lady's warm approval...
...essentially a collection of anecdotes such as an immigrant returned to his homeland might tell to his wondering grandchildren. Few books have ever made the U.S. seem so exotic. The stories were written by Helen Papashvily, George's American-born wife, exactly as he told them, with his florid language and his owlish humor carefully preserved...
...situation, and advance the story, with considerable dramatic intelligence. Napoleon's occupation of Moscow, and his catastrophic retreat, are child's play compared with their handling in Tolstoy's great novel War and Peace. But the retreat does have a certain grandeur, resembling that of the florid, romantic, 19th-Century military art from which its cinematic style is apparently derived...
...SOLD to what's the name please?" Prices were middling: $25 for most of the marble-topped dressers, $3 to $50 for figured carpets, $20 apiece for twin brass beds. One of the 888-ft. long red Axminster carpets from a hallway brought $1, 600. For the two florid front-lawn urns a dealer paid $50, for an unsigned Hudson River School painting...