Word: floridation
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...Fervent, florid Senator James A. Reed of Missouri and his more or less silent colleagues continued their investigation of campaign expenses. At one point, Senator Reed was at pains to remind people that this dredging, though begun among slushy millions in Pennsylvania, would be extended to "every State in the union." The next state will be Illinois. The committee will repair to Chicago this month to plumb charges made last week by busy-buzzing Senator Thaddeus Caraway that three or more millions were spent on candidates...
Then "Little Phil" was 43, and his five-foot-six-inch frame (shrunken at one time during his arduous campaigning to 130 lb.) "had now begun to fill and curve with adipose.*. . ." His face was florid. . . . Irene M. Rucker, his little bride, also a devout Catholic, was a score of years younger. For 14 years they lived together, and had four children, and then, deathly ill, Sheridan received from Congress the full rank of General, a rank which he held until his death two months later...
...Rockman, (bromo seltzer) ; I. B. Humphreys, Denver mine-owner; C. Frank Croissant, Florida real estate operator; Mrs. George B. Cox, shrewd wife of a shrewd Ohio politician; and best known of all, a gentleman who peered through his racing-glasses while nearby touts peered at him, recognizing his florid, dignified countenance as that of Financier Harry Payne Whitney, owner of Blondin, whose stable and whose sportsmanship are famous on every track...
After the metropolitan press had used to full and florid advantage the announcement from the American Association of University Professors that football was really not the essential item in modern educational policy the Yale News decided to revive that bugaboo of last autumn, the perennial fall guy, football for the momentary display included in this column. That there is a certain sanity in their reaction is apparent. But that this sanity is slightly adumbrated by the clouds of sentimentalism, too often hovering upon undergraduate horizon is even more apparent...
...stockholders' meeting of the U. S. Steel Corporation in Hoboken, N. J., one E. R. Armstrong, shareholder, arose to bait Judge Elbert H. Gary, veteran Chairman of the Board. Judge Gary's naturally florid countenance blenched somewhat as Mr. Armstrong cried...