Word: floridation
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...from a heyday that was richly spectacular to an ending deeply pathetic. She was born plain Lillian Norton in Farmington, Me. She sang in church choirs in Boston, toured with a brass band until she could afford to study opera in Italy. Like Lilli Lehmann, she began with light florid roles, won great success. But her ambition soared higher. She went to Bayreuth, worked with Wagner's widow, became a finished Wagnerian. As a prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera she conducted herself royally. For her audiences she had unfailing charm; for herself, rich furs and jewels, a private...
Lucrezia Bori, young and unmarried at 46, lately adored as "Savior of the Met," gracefully expert in light florid roles...
...being carried on, either by holding companies or by operating companies, the industry will welcome an opportunity to negotiate and arrange for their removal. . . . I am confident that if the problem is approached by representatives of all concerned who are not extremists . . . a solution can be found. . . ." The bulky, florid gentleman who called on the President last week would never classify himself an extremist. He founded his $700,000,000 holding company 31 years ago with the motto: "To develop the State of New Jersey and to make it a better place in which to live." And today Founder-President...
...Cunard-White Star Line officers must do on reaching 60, Captain John W. Binks of the S. S. Olympic prepared last week to quit the sea after 45 years in steam & sail. Memorable indeed was the last westbound trip of the Olympic's florid, stocky skipper from Southampton to New York. Over the North Atlantic raged a winter's storm that brought many a vessel distress, twice sent the barometer from 30 in. to 28 in.-lowest Captain Binks had ever seen. So rough was New York's almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take...
...defeated not so much by attrition and force of numbers as by Grant's superior tactics and determination. He brushes aside Grant's heavy losses: "Criticism of Grant for incurring heavy casualty lists in utterly destroying his adversary refutes itself." Biographer McCormick lays many a florid wreath at his paladin's feet: "A hero, without fear and without reproach, who needed neither the panoply of war nor the customary mannerisms of command to buoy up his iron will." He sums up his admiration by declaring Grant the superior of Napoleon himself...