Word: floridation
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...small, nut-brown Mahatma Gandhi came last week that slightly florid human mountain, the House of Commons. In effect a special meeting of the House convened around him, using for this purpose the historic Grand Committee Room. Barefoot and barelegged as usual...
Sponsor of the fleet's visit to Montauk was Congressman Fred Albert Britten of Illinois, the blocky, florid chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee. Congressman Britten summers at Montauk. He was there to welcome the fleet. So was his good friend Carl Graham Fisher, board chairman of Montauk Beach Development Corp. Mr. Britten had outlined a gay, busy week for the Navy. The hostesses of swank East Hampton and Southampton nearby would entertain the officers at many a bright party. For the men there would be a carnival at more distant Patchogue, where they could race bicycles, pitch...
...sixth floor of the Chicago Daily News building, in the office from which the late Publisher Walter Ansel Strong used to look out across the Chicago River, a new occupant, big, sandy-haired and florid, made himself at home last week. Beaming with pride, he alternately jumped to the telephone, plugging one ear against the shriek of tugboat whistles to catch words of congratulation in the other, and strode happily through the flower-decked reception room, the Victor F. Lawson Memorial board room, with its walls and fireplace transplanted from the founder's home. He was Col. William Franklin...
...late Frank van der Stucken who for many years directed the Festival. Of the soloists, two from England made promising U. S. debuts-Tenor Walter Widdop and Contralto Muriel Brunkskill. Lily Pons, the Metropolitan's new French find, walked away with a program on which she sang three florid coloratura airs. But the hero for the duration of the five day Festival was Conductor Eugene Goossens. Conductor Goossens, for seven years leader of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, was directing his first Cincinnati Festival, succeeding Chicago's Frederick Stock who no longer has the strength for a double...
...thunderous meet with a speed of 328 m.p.h. In the War he flew with the Royal Air Force, was once reprimanded for failing in a report to describe the nature of the ground where he had been forced down. Few days later he made another forced landing, rendered a florid description of the daisy field where it occurred. Henceforth his nickname was "Daisy." Last week, the day of the Kidston crash, "Daisy" Waghorn and Civilian E. R. D. Alexander were flight-testing a new bomber near Aldershot, England. It went out of control at about 300 ft. Both flyers jumped...