Word: florid
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...there is one thing particularly enjoyed by Arizona's florid, courtly Henry Fountain Ashurst, it is disseminating bits of the complex philosophy he has acquired in his 25 years in the U. S. Senate. Last week Senator Ashurst had a characteristically involved witticism to deliver. Said he: "In times of classical antiquity there were two things unpredictable: the way of a man with a maid, and the way of an eagle on a rock (which way it will fly)." The last decade, according to Senator Ashurst, has added another equally profound human uncertainty: "What will Congress...
...noted among U. S. art galleries, the Toledo Museum of Art last week acquired five paintings by contemporary U. S. painters, all of them well known. Bought before the paint was dry on it in Eugene Speicher's studio at Woodstock, N. Y. was Blue Necklace, a quietly florid and sexual portrait of a girl in a pink bodice, one shoulder strap fallen, brooding over a letter held in her open lap. Others: a sentimental painting of a young girl sewing by Frederick C. Frieseke. a vivid luminosity with figure by Alexander Brook, a nude...
Admission to the bar is tantamount to election to State bar associations and even in such legal citadels as Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago, city bar groups accept women members. But at the florid marble building of the Bar Association of the City of New York at No. 42 West 44th Street, women lawyers have never been welcome. At one Bar Association reception for newly admitted lawyers, women were turned away. Although Manhattan women lawyers had met informally for nearly 15 years prior, it was this incident which served to solidify their organization into the New York Women...
Perhaps, as the friend who is reading the sports page in his old green armchair complains, these thoughts tend to the sentimental and the florid, but how else would one think of Spring? Would one peek out the window, sec leaves waving on trees, lawnmowers on the grass, and merely cry, "Swell"? Would one stroll along either bank of the Charles, search the darkness for couples increasing the pleasure of the night, and, but sigh? At least, one should do more than sigh...
...were not enough chairs to go round. It was not that General Motors' 342,384 stockholders had turned out to rule their company, but that in the room, on the seventh floor of the Du Pont Building, there were but 20 chairs at meeting time. Presiding was heavyset, florid John Thomas Smith, GM vice president and general counsel. Absent were President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. and 30 other directors...