Word: floridity
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Charles Dow died in 1902 without having made much impression on cynical Wall Street. A subsequent editor of the Journal, florid William Peter Hamilton, embroidered the idea, told men in pegtop trousers and telescope hats that the averages forecast both business and market trends. In 1922 he published The Stock Market Barometer, first comprehensive book on the Dow Theory. William Hamilton died in 1929-a few weeks after he announced that the greatest bull market in history had ended: "On the late Charles H. Dow's well-known method of reading the stock market movement from the Dow-Jones...
...from his crimes a basis for preventing any more like them in Wall Street This morning he had said good-by to his wife and two daughters, all of whom have indicated that they will go to work. Standing silently in court he had just listened to a long, florid plea for mercy by his lawyer, Charles Tuttle. Excerpt...
...four-ton electrically driven passenger car seats six, hauls a big baggage van. From the Bermuda Railway was borrowed Chief Engineer Kitchen to supervise construction; into the island's collections went $2,000 in duty on materials. On hand for the inauguration was Bermuda's florid British Governor, Lieut.-General Sir Reginald J. T. Hildyard-who, like all Bermuda Governors, is a good friend to the island's richest residents. So pleased was Railroader Astor with his labor saving railway that he panned to extend it over the rest of the estate...
...shadow of the white stone Gothic fane. People in his Bible class, at wedding and funeral services he conducted, at Holy Communion in the Cathedral, eyed Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe with silent, respectful curiosity. They had read in Memphis newspapers that this dean of the Cathedral, once a florid and jovial churchman, had for a year taken no nourishment but orange juice. For a fortnight, to prove that "the soul is above the need of material life," he had, according to his friends, subsisted on sips of wine and tiny wafers from the communion services he conducted thrice weekly...
...history of education in America." Month ago Editor & Publisher, house organ of the daily newspaper publishing industry, assailed the News issue as "far from objective, far from scholarly . . . unfair," while the American Newspaper Guild's Guild Reporter found it "objective . . . penetrating . . . avoids both the movie versions and the florid house-organ ideology...