Word: floridation
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...last week, goodhearted, excitable Charles Tobey, one of the Senate's most florid orators and unpredictable Republican mavericks, had become almost a stranger to the Senate chamber. He had spent a good part of the summer traveling up & down New Hampshire, spouting Latin quotations, leaning on the Good Book, explaining and apologizing to people who had been voting for him for decades. Apparently he had come to regard his independent-liberal reputation as something of a campaign liability. Sure he had fought for labor's rights, said Tobey, but Herbert Hoover was "my dear friend." Furthermore, Wisconsin...
...tale [about an eccentric actress who gave a party and forgot to mail the invitations] on which Billy Rose was anticipated by Evelyn Waugh [TIME, June 12] was not original with Mr. Waugh, either. In Hesketh Pearson's biography, Oscar Wilde [Harper; 1946], we find Wilde telling a florid version of it to a friend on whom he fobbed it off as a true story about one of his own family. And since Wilde was no stickler for pure originality, the tale was probably kicking around long before his time...
...replace him in the depths of the Red Sox slump, Owner Tom Yawkey promptly appointed 58-year-old Coach Steve O'Neill, who had once managed Cleveland and Detroit, and had been a star catcher in his playing days. Florid, easygoing Manager O'Neill would have his hands full getting the demoralized Red Sox back to their winning ways. No one thought a change of managers would solve all of Boston's troubles...
...name was John Erskine and he was no page-assignment teacher. After a few years at Amherst, he moved on to Columbia University to become one of the most noted and notable men on the faculty. He was a spiky-haired scholar, with a hulking figure, a florid face, and a cold contempt for the dull and dimwitted. His lectures on literature were polished performances, in which Erskine paused only to chuckle before dropping one of his epigrams, or to stare icily at some latecomer making his way to a seat. Students flocked to hear him, and in the evenings...
Florida's florid Senator Claude Pepper, a man with an eye for political talent, took a shine to young George Armistead Smathers as soon as he spotted him back in 1938. Smathers, a handsome, athletic law student, had been captain of the University of Florida basketball team and president of the student body. Pepper made him a sort of junior-grade campaign manager, later helped him get a job as an assistant U.S. attorney in Miami...