Word: floridation
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...course there are books of an ephemeral nature whose sensational and journalistic qualities make them popular for a time and which are undoubtedly aided by this florid method of advertising. The ranks of these books are growing and already there is a large group of hack writers engaged in producing a steady stream of such material. They can hardly be called literature, however, and can best be likened to the stereotyped products turned out every week by the Hollywood movie mills. But as long as it is possible to keep a book and read it over more than once there...
...better formula is known for exploiting an autobiography than to provoke a squabble between the autobiographer and some other celebrity. Even the well-told story of so florid a subject as Anthony Herman Gerard ("Uncle Tony'') Fokker* would have created no great splash when it appeared last week had not the book contained some acid comments by Fokker about Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, and had not an astute press-agent pre-advised newsmen of those comments. The book made headlines last week for the passages in a scant ten pages...
Belvidere bankers, the local chambers of commerce and the Chicago Association of Commerce all have doubted this explanation. But up to last week they had failed to find the actual means by which Black Hawk Finance finances itself. "Let them investigate," shouted florid Financier Benham to visitors. "I have nothing to conceal...
...kind of humor. Wodehouse fans regard his lyrics for the Oh!-musicomedies (Oh, Boy, Oh, Lady, Lady! Oh, My Dear!) as best of their kind since the late Sir William Schwenk Gilbert's. Wodehouse once wrote five librettos at the same time, for shows that appeared simultaneously. Baldish, florid-faced, 49, he lives in London, but last spring visited the U. S., went to Holly-wood on a new departure: to write for the cinema. With him went his daughter Lenora ("Snorks") who some months prior had tactfully smuggled out from a party two newly-engaged guests who were...
...charge of prostitution. For two days and nights Mrs. Ricchebuono was locked up while Bernard scurried around, trying frantically but futilely to raise $500 bail. Meanwhile a probation officer had investigated the case, found no evidence of vice. On the third day Rosa Ricchebuono, the picture of fat, florid respectability, was arraigned before Magistrate Jesse Silbermann. He listened to the policeman's story, swept aside good character evidence, sentenced Rosa Ricchebuono to two days' imprisonment, which she had already served...