Word: florid
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...both in heavily rationed Norway; that she was a popular guest at quisling parties; that en route to Norway she had stopped in Berlin, described Nazi Germany as "a lovely place." And it was no rumor but fact that Flagstad's husband, to whom she is devoted, florid, balding Henry Johansen, was not anti-Nazi before the Nazis invaded Norway, has since supported Vidkun Quisling...
Last year florid-faced, old (70) Senator Clyde Martin Reed went back to his home town, Parsons, Kans., where he published the daily Sun. There he heard that men wanting work at the nearby Sunflower ordnance plant had first to join an A.F. of L. union, pay $39 to $53 in initiation fees and dues. Many of the job-seekers were from Kansas farms. Hopping mad, he went back to Washington, introduced a bill calling for open shops on Government jobs. The bill was shelved in committee...
...music, sometimes warm and romantic, is oftener florid and stale...
...Collins' establishment was one of the most elaborate in the city since the notorious parlor of Mme. Restell, almost 100 years ago. A florid midwife bedecked with velvet and plumes, Mme. Restell amassed a fortune from abortions. She used to kiss her young clients good-by with the words: "Go, and sin no more." In 1878 she was finally hunted down by Reformer Anthony Comstock, committed suicide in her bathtub...
...their gym on Friday afternoons in 1923 and 1924. One of them, the late, great Clarinetist Frank Teschmaker, taught Benny Goodman some stuff. Another, Tenor Saxophonist Bud Freeman, was one of many who later played in the Goodman band and now lead their own. Still another was husky, florid Trumpeter Jimmy MacPartland, who assembled the small band at the Brass Rail this week. Three of that group are men who began in the Austin High period: bespectacled Joe Sullivan, who learned his piano at the Chicago Conservatory; gaunt, elfin "Pee Wee" Russell, famed for his thin, jetting runs and husky...