Word: floridity
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...little Willie Pieck buckled down tc his new job in Berlin's eastern sector, fat and florid as usual, thinking about great actions of world significance...
Under Capricorn (Transatlantic Pictures; Warner) puts Ingrid Bergman to work under one of the heaviest handicaps of her career. At best, the story is a florid historical romance; at its worst it is little better than hysterical drugstore fiction. Even tricked out with Technicolor and the skillfully elegant direction of Alfred Hitchcock, if remains a tedious and dispiriting yarn...
...florid man with the brush haircut rose, walked over to the jury box and grasped the rail with both hands. His manner was cozy. "We've all been here a long time," he confided, "and I feel I have come to know you well." Then he began buttering up: "In this sanctuary of justice, a holy place, to me second only to a church, I see you not as just twelve ladies and gentlemen. I see you strong, resolute and courageous soldiers of justice...
Editor Grosvenor wields an autocratic blue pencil, even on articles written for the Geographic by U.S. Presidents, e.g., Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge and Hoover. Most articles and "legends" (captions) are written by the studious, well-paid editorial staff of 149. Grosvenor sets the tone, which is frequently florid, sometimes quaint, always polite. Says Grosvenor: "We prefer to print only what is of a kindly nature." He has even found a friendly word to say for wasps...
...first big show of the 81st Congress and Texas' florid old Tom Connally promptly fumbled his lines. He had moved his Foreign Relations Committee into the marble-pillared Senate caucus room. The hearing, Tom Connally announced, was "on the question of the nomination of Dean Acheson as Under Secretary of State." A murmur of correction ("Secretary!") rose from the press tables. Connally, beaming under the klieg lights, brushed off the advice: "He's still Under Secretary until he's confirmed." Then, after recalling that Acheson was still a citizen without public office, he added...