Word: floridation
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...arrested and held in $15,000 bail, charged with extortion, bribery, conspiracy. A lawyer testified that Mr. Patterson had commissioned him to collect certain moneys "for campaign purposes." During six months up to Aug. 15, the lawyer had accordingly obtained $12,195 from one William C. Peters, a florid gentleman with a drooping moustache. The lawyer was not aware that Mr. Peters was a saloonkeeper. He was not aware that the funds were protection fees from 20 speakeasies. But his client, Patterson, knew...
...Florid, big-boned Baron Dalziel of Kirkcaldy, kinsman of Europe's late Sleeping Car Tycoon Baron Dalziel of Wooler (TIME, April 30), has now said: "I have long ago given up trying to get English people to pronounce 'Dalziel' correctly. . . . The late Lord Dalziel also accustomed himself to let the wrong pronunciation pass uncorrected. . . . He ceased to maintain the tradition that 'Dalziel' should be pronounced...
...take sick children to Dr. Ivan Bratt, a young and smart child specialist, in 1909. Some still do. However 1909 is pertinent because it was then that Swedish temperance societies polled 1,800,000 votes for absolute prohibition and only 20,000 for modified prohibition. That straw vote scared florid liquor barons white-and gave young Dr. Bratt a keen business idea...
King, Dictator, President. When spruce, bronzed King Alfonso had conferred with paunchy, florid General de Rivera to their two hearts' content, they chuffed by special train to a remote and unheard of village in the Pyrenees called Canfrane. There a shiny new electric locomotive was hitched to the special, drew it up a terrifically steep grade to an altitude of 3,600 feet, and stopped dead in the very midnight middle of the Samport Tunnel...
Italy's press burst into florid rhetoric. The Nobile disaster had pained and depressed the most patriotic editors, but Ferrarin and Delprete pushed the Polar Pilgrim into obscure corners. Typical of the unrestrained expression of the newspapers was the comment of Lavoro: "It almost seems that today in all the skies of the world can be heard the palpitating of Italian wings; from the overcast skies of the Arctic regions to the scintillating heavens of the tropics is being carried that great magic word, 'Italia,' by intrepid hearts and by robust wings. ..." Somewhat obscurely, La Tribuna mused...