Word: floridation
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...skirts and thrusting her neck forward, she interprets the part according to the grand manner. The most sad, true and unusual scene in the play is made by Arnold Korff. As Julius Beaufort, he launches into a declaration of love for the Countess Olenska, couched in German accents and florid with metaphor, which is the more tragic because it is so nearly ridiculous...
Bertrand H. ("Bert") Snell of Potsdam, N. Y., is a banker and cheesemaker. Short, florid, solid, he combines the rigidity of a businessman with the facility of a politician. There is small room for humor in his job of ramming resolutions through the Rules Committee and he seldom smiles. Amherst graduated him one year ahead of Calvin Coolidge and Dwight W. Morrow...
...Elysee Palace a small golden clock tinkled ten. Jovial, florid Gaston Doumergue was settling contentedly to the digestion of his late presidential dinner. From the clock a low, rapid tik-tik-tik. From the President of France a contented, sleepy sigh. Felicity! Then a door yawned and in strode busy, kinetic M. Raymond Poincaré, the man who saved and stabilized the franc, the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine...
Thorn Clark. Montana copper wars, kindled 50 years ago, are not extinguished. Bitter enemy of Anaconda is short, florid William A. Clark Jr., son of the late, short florid Senator who was the most colorful of the copper kings. Last summer. Ana conda bought the Clark interests in Mon tana for some $6,000,000. Included was the Butte Miner, personal organ of young; Clark. But Anaconda could not buy Clark's silence. He sent for a complete newspaper plant, founded the Montana Free Press (TIME, Sept. 3). Anaconda merged the Miner with the Butte edition of the Anaconda...
Glad-hand tactics have carried Roy Young far. At 18 he was a messenger boy in the Marquette (Mich.) bank. At 37 he was head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the youngest governor in the system. Every U. S. banking tycoon knows and likes his pleasant, florid face, his easy, vigorous anecdotes. He is now 46, a satisfied, successful Scotchman...