Word: floridation
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...wantonness, when History's closet affords the skeletons of many such- authentic shades already advertised, even to an ill-schooled generation. She (internal evidence fixes the gender) has but to draw about the rummaged bones their traditional glamour, judiciously intensified and sympathetically explained. So here we have a florid Woman's Byron, contrived by a rather superior Elinor Glyn, who assures the finicky that she departs from historic truth "never knowingly," without once removing her rapt and gleaming eye from the hungry hosts of spinsters and pensive wives who will embrace her hero, "so winning, so unwon...
...LOST DOMINION-"Al Carthill" -Putnam ($3.50). Under the title of this book, a florid classicist-an Indian civil servant-whose pseudonym does not hide the fact that at the best he came from Oxford or Cambridge, revels in a verbose interpretation of the history of the British in India. The general conclusion which the author reaches is that the British will one day lose India, for reason that there will be no place for her in the Commonwealth and no tie to bind her to the other Dominions...
John Singer Sargent died once before, in 1899. He was killed in the office of a British newspaper syndicate and had the pleasure, next day, of reading florid obituaries of himself in the English and Continental press. He read how he, the son of a New England physician, had been born in Florence, Italy, studied art in France, painted a portrait of his teacher, Carolus Duran, which was exhibited in the Salon of 1877 and made him famous at 21. He read of the many commissions that were showered upon him from the month of that first success...
...once the chief drawing card of the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. This winter, he, in excess of drama, accidentally hurled athletic Soprano Maria Jeritza into the footlights (TIME, Feb. 9)-an unfortunate accident which did not help his popularity. He makes his chief successes in the old, melodious, florid type of Italian opera. When all has been said, cultured Martinelli, Singer Gigli are both able, both popular, both have, it is said, like Caruso,- large paid claques. There is another tenor at the Metropolitan, Edward Johnson, Canadian, who sings well, has a good figure, acts excellently. His prestige is rapidly...
...Taft Commission in 1903, wooed and won a woman; he, who afterwards overshadowed his career by becoming the son-in-law of a President-he too desired the Speakership. The campaign was fast and furious, yet quite different from an electoral campaign-there were no patriotic speeches, no florid enthusiasms for the working man and farmer. It was simply a case of two politicians each wanting the same job and appealing to their friends to rally to them. On the eve of a special Republican caucus of members of the 69th Congress, both contestants claimed the victory. Indeed, if their...