Word: floridity
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Rich & Broke. It was eleven years since the composer of Der Rosenkavalier and Salome had visited England. During that time his fame had increased as his fortunes had gone down. He still looked fit and florid, but Richard Strauss was broke. Though his operas and orchestral suites were frequently played throughout Europe and the U.S., he had received none of the benefits. At war's end, the Allies impounded his sizable royalties-(estimated at $460,000 from British and U.S. performances alone) for reparations...
...change brings no good for any of the Sisters. They are disturbed by the remoteness of the place and its unearthly quiet, by the winds, by the breath-taking beauty of the mountains. They are unsettled by the florid carnality of the murals which glow from the walls of the old pleasure house. And people trouble them as much as the place and its erotic past...
...there was still another ending to the episode. Comfortable, florid ABC Vice President Ed Borroff was among the listeners that day. A longtime critic of such programs, he decided that the cliff-hang ending had gone quite far enough. Last week Borroff gave orders which may chip away dangerously at the foundations of all soap operas, as well as kid-chillers. Jack Armstrong and his running mate, Sky King, he ruled, need more time, less suspense. After Aug. 25 the shows will be heard on alternate days and stretched to a full half hour. Each day there will...
...Long Night is an ambitious movie, with some glaring faults. Much of it is too loud, too sentimental, too insistent on giving grand-scale social meaning to an essentially personal story. Although the acting is unusually sincere, Vincent Price is too florid even for his florid role; Henry Fonda often counts too much on a sort of adenoidal pathos; Ann Dvorak is not very convincing as the other woman; and only Barbara Bel Geddes, making her screen debut, is really satisfactory...
THIS MAY BE DYNAMITE! shouted the headline in Britain's trade weekly World's Press News. Beneath it was a scandal-scented story: the press was paying members of the House of Commons for parliamentary and party "leaks." The accusation came from fat, florid Garry Allighan, a Labor M.P. and ex-Fleet Streeter. Some M.P.s, Allighan charged, got cash, some got publicity, some were merely "lubricated into loquacity" around the House...