Word: floridation
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...passed a minor milestone. In Manhattan's Chanin Building, where once it could not pay its office rent, the May Co. opened an entire floor of dazzling new red, blue and chartreuse offices, celebrated with a gay get-together. Chief speaker, as usual, was the company's florid, talkative president, George Storr May. Topic...
...Legal! What the hell is legal?" snorted William L. ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, florid, mule-mannered czar of the 400,000 United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners...
Massachusetts' florid-faced, iron-grey Charles L Gifford, 72, a Representative from Cape Cod for 22 years, told the House just when a Congressman can be fearless: "It seems Wendell Phillips once said that when a statesman, socalled, arrives at 70 and when he no longer has any hope of being President, you can get the truth...
This modest if rhetorical utterance is characteristic of florid, balding, loquacious Stark Young, who has been a discerning critic of art and the theater (in the New Republic and elsewhere) for some 20 years. Stark Young is known also as a best-selling novelist (So Red The Rose), a poet, a playwright, a translator of plays and a lecturer. Last week he made a firm bid to be known as a painter, gave his first exhibition at Manhattan's Friends of Greece...
...Lowell (TIME. Jan. 18). Missing, too, was the beribboned straw which, for an epoch, crowned the commencement head of John Pierpont Morgan '89. Gone was the traditional confetti battle between the seniors and their relatives and friends in Soldiers' Field. Gone was the reunion parade with its florid costumes, and the baseball game with Yale. No class tents were pitched in Harvard Yard, no lunches spread on the lawns. For music there was no traditional Harvard band, but Navy Yard and Coast Artillery brasses...