Word: floridation
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They came with their shillelaghs-florid-faced Thomas Francis McMahon swinging the threat of a cotton textile strike and pug-nosed Michael Francis Tighe brandishing what looked dangerously like a steel strike. If either or both landed a good stiff wallop with their clubs. General Johnson's job-making program with NRA would be sent sprawling in the dust of more labor troubles...
Based on stories by E. W. Hornung (Raffles), Stingaree is well-photographed, contains some florid acting by Mary Boland as a fluttery provincial lady, would be routine operetta if it contained more songs...
Captain John W. Binks is a florid, stocky oldster who has commanded White Star boats for ten years and became master of the Olympic in 1932 with a long clear record behind him. When the liner sidled up to a Manhattan pier last week with a few scratches on her huge prow, he was too tired and confused to give a rational explanation of his first tragedy...
...body, painfully recalled fitting the clothes which the corpse still wore. In San Jose, where gaunt-faced Thomas H. Thurmond and hulking John Holmes had been jailed after confessing to the crime, red-hot resentment took shape as a mob. Asked if he would call out the militia, florid Governor James Rolph Jr. snorted: "What! Call out the troops to protect those two guys?" By nightfall some 6,000 infuriated Californians were swarming around the jail and on the lawn of a park across the street. When they rushed the jail's iron doors with two great pieces...
...diptych deal. What he paid neither the Metropolitan, Knoedler & Co. nor the Soviet Government would say. Three hundred years ago the acquisition of such treasure would have been just cause for a three-day civic celebration. It did cause Manhattan art critics to launch columns of the most florid writing since the death of James Gibbons Huneker. Excerpts : Edward Alden Jewell (Times) : "Yet if the Crucifixion be esteemed a truly inspired example of the Flemish miniaturist's artistry . . . full of a robust tenderness that climbs in the Christ to agonized sublimity . . . The Hell, monstrous on its minuscule scale...