Word: floridation
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...stock, Wall Street has not been conscious of any great golden California bear in its menagerie. Embarrassing as it might have been for Transamerica's active management, the Giannini outburst - made be neath Florida's sun, not California's - was soon discounted as a merely characteristically florid sales talk by the ageing mas ter of finance. Meantime, many thousands of Trans america's 200,000 stockholders wrote and traveled to the company's 400 branches to join in this rare game where Little Shots could play pool-partners with Big Shot...
Luana. One proverb of show-business says that first-rate plays become second-rate musicomedies.? Oldtime theatregoers who remember that lush melodrama The Bird of Paradise?in which Lenore Ulric, Laurette Taylor, Lewis Stone, Guy Bates Post once took part?did not find Arthur Hammerstein's florid musical adaptation, Luana, as successful entertainment as its progenitor. Tediously faithful to the original plot in which a princess of the Sandwich Islands marries a young U. S. doctor, only to lose him and destroy herself in a volcano as a sacrifice to her people, Producer Hammerstein has given his show...
When the premiere was over the meagre audience applauded apathetically. Next morning critics in the public prints seemed doubtful, unconvincingly called it "music on the grand scale" or echoed Critic Herbert Hughes's (London Daily Telegraph) florid romantics, printed in the program. Reflective listeners decided Launcelot might be more effective if halved, with fewer thematic repetitions, or conversely, expanded into a full-length, Neo-Wagnerian opera as Coates first intended to do. Bold or brave was he to introduce his work on the same night with such magna opera as Respighi's orchestration of Bach's Passacaglia...
...Court letters was the campaign Mr. Phillips was waging as a Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in this month's primary. A onetime Congressman who has grown rich in public utilities (oil and coal), he is large, rotund, married, father of five. His hair is grey, his face florid, his manner genial and approachable. He is running as an out-&-out Wet for the repeal of his State's enforcement act. Opposing him are Gifford Pinchot, a crusading Dry, and Francis Shunk Brown supported by both the Mellon and Vare factions of the G. O. P. Mr. Brown...
...Escholier puts in this edition a special bid for the American trade when he plays up to its full value the Hugo-Lincoln story. This attempt in no way succeeds in over-balancing the florid enthusiasm which runs through the pages like a great exotic weed, and is very annoying to those who would wade through the tropical growth of bubbling Gallic lack of restraint. In contrast to the precision of other French prose, this translated outburst of M. Escholier indicates that, like the little girl who is very good, French writing when it is bad, is horrid...