Word: floridity
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...Teatime Touch. With the benign air of the family's favorite aunt, florid, white-haired Party Chairman Lord Woolton rose on the flower-lined platform to announce good news. Conservative membership had risen from 1,200,000 to 2,250,000 from December 1947 to June 1948. Recent public opinion polls had shown that the Tories were ahead. But the delegates realized that they were still far from home. Said one: "The tide is turning. We must harness it to our projects." Said another: "But what are our projects...
...hinder the noise and color that help a man advertise his thoughts. If a man wants to speak his piece with the aid of a brass band at some reasonable spot at a reasonable hour, regulations should not stop him. The Deans need have no fear that the florid oratory of an undergraduate can ever injure Harvard's name...
...much for Composer Villa-Lobos, or probably anyone else, to triumph over. It is yet a tribute to him that Magdalena is often something to be enjoyed rather than endured. Some of his music is pleasantly (and all the more pleasantly for being well sung) in the florid, full-bosomed tradition of operetta; while the best of it has real color and wit, is truly folkish or stylish. On the good side, too, are some of Jack Cole's slithery dances, and the genuine if old-fashioned showmanship of Singing Comedienne Irra Petina (Song of Norway...
...First "Colossal." Griffith brought a strange, yet significant, heritage to his work. His father was Colonel Jacob Wark ("Roaring Jake") Griffith, a Confederate cavalry officer given to florid readings of Shakespeare. Like him, young D. W. had a stentorian voice, a tough physical frame, and a character that mixed moral austerity with poetic sentiment. He absorbed the attitude of the post-bellum Southerner to the Nouhern carpetbagger and the problems of the new freed men. When his talents and his viewpoint merged in The Birth of a Nation, a story of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the first...
They had no trouble talking Florida's florid Senator Claude Pepper into being their candidate. Deadpan Claude Pepper, onetime champion of Russia, onetime apologist for Henry Wallace, onetime defender of Harry Truman against the Dixie rebels, and the last drummer in the Eisenhower parade, made the most of the spotlight. He strode into the abandoned Eisenhower headquarters, bussed his wife at the cameramen's request and proclaimed that he would "accept the draft." Said Claude Pepper: "This is no time for politics as usual...