Word: floridation
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...they don't often shout!" Clarence H. Mackay, Chairman of the Philharmonic Board, stood, carnation in buttonhole, bending a benign, florid face upon the inclining Furtwangler. He had just heard him conduct Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, with dignity and power. This Furtwangler well understands Beethoven, presents, in fact, something of an intellectual likeness to him. He has vigor, directness, a scorn of sham that amounts some- times to a scorn of subtlety, and a kind of majesty even-the majesty of the unconcerned. Perhaps that is why the cellists slapped their instruments...
...florid, proud, vigorous...
Ralph Pulitzer, son of Joseph, wrote in tribute: "He thought simply and hated sophistry. He wrote simply and hated florid phrases. He lived simply and hated fuss and feathers. He succeeded simply and became a power and a personality in the United States, writing editorials he did not sign in a paper...
...think: "Why, yes-I guess I will." You remember, vaguely, bookplates you have known-heavy engravings of armorial bearings in large volumes bound in calf-cute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there...
...interesting to see together three of the gayest spinners of romantic yarns. Lloyd Osborne, the son-in-law and collaborator of Robert Louis Stevenson, florid, tall, grey; George Barr McCutcheon, always jovial and kindly; Farnol, shorter than either of them, quite unimpressive until he bubbles over with some sudden enthusiasm for an anecdote...