Word: floridation
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...author of The Blind Bow-Boy is a tall, slim, white-haired, slightly florid young man of middle age. I have often observed him, have corresponded with him, but have never consciously spoken to him. I should have a constant fear that he would ruin some pet illusion of mine by a vagrant flippancy?and that I should be tempted to attempt to knock him down where he stood. Yet from all accounts Carl Van Vechten is a charming fellow. He is fond of cats (as the world reading his books knows). He has lived much on the Continent...
...German eyes. Then they must be taxed. This cannot be done, but a brilliant Hun thought put a wonderful scheme of taxing foreign words. Thus if anybody prefers "hotel" for " gasthof," "coiffeur" for " haarkünstler," " restaurant " for " wirtschaft," he must pay for offending the populace with these horrid, florid words...
Cyrus E. Woods, slender, gray-suited, American Ambassador to Madrid; Colonel George Harvey, tall, horn-spectacled, with square-topped derby; Alanson B. Houghton, clean-shaven, florid and grave, Ambassador to Berlin, came down the gangplank of the George Washington together, back from Europe with the usual Ambassadorial truisms...
...would make it great. He is too near his subject to see him in perspective, too carried away by his personality to judge him as anything but a hero of an "heroic biography". The translation of Eden and Cedar Paul is often annoying with its endless inverted sentences, its florid and over elaborate style, its frequent tendency to melodramatize prose, which must have been stately and flowing in the original. But Roman Rolland is a book to be read, and reread as an engrossing lesson in the art of living
...Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools. And after a somewhat florid period of youth, his style of writing and speaking became extraordinarily simple and impressive. Lincoln's practice as a country lawyer, his repeated terms in the Legislature of Illinois and even his three years in Congress brought him little reputation; but all these experiences of course were unconscious preparation...