Word: floridity
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Orator Howard is credited with having written many a florid passage in the sermons of the late "Billy" Sunday, orated himself like this: "The speakeasy is the most stupendous, titanic, colossal, calamitous, crimson, conscienceless, pitiless and cataclysmic criminal of the ages. It is the vilest of villains, the cruelest of all criminals, the loudest of all liars, the blackest of all blackguards, the most treasonable of all traitors, the most terrible of all tyrants since the world was born." In Rochester alone Reformer Howard delivered 3.500 speeches and sermons, boasted that he accepted pay for but one. With the proceeds...
...that will appeal to the calloused audience of today, as a whole it is a creditable job. To make polished sentiment sound convincing to a sentiment-hating public is not easy. At first Miss Jerome starts off on the wrong foot by encouraging the audience to laugh at the florid language, and then later depending on it to grasp the drama when the same language is used in tense moments. But in spite of these inconsistencies, which are gradually being eliminated, "Jane Eyre" is an admirable production and one that should please New York almost as much as Boston...
...first things Chairman Hamilton did was to get out a memorandum detailing the exact duties and authority of every one of his division heads, naming Harrison Earl Spangler as Executive Vice Chairman to run things in his future absences. Vice Chairman Spangler, short, florid Iowa lawyer and gentleman farmer, as field marshal of Party organizers, aimed to have by Election Day one personal-pressure worker (Republican Volunteer) for every 30 voters in the land. Last week, when Chairman Hamilton sallied off to Washington and Manhattan, he left behind a functioning organization, notable for the facts that its members were...
...Chicago preacher who was supposed to represent the rank & file of the ministry, 508 to an administration wheelhorse of a type that Presbyterians have docilely accepted in recent years-Rev. Dr. Henry Buck Master, 64, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Pensions since 1919. A portly, florid Princeton man (1895) who held pastorates in Buffalo and Fort Wayne, Ind. and went to War as a stretcher-bearer, Dr. Master lives affluently on Philadelphia's Main Line, attends the swankest Presbyterian Church, at Bryn Mawr. Conservative in theology, he has never been involved in church fights, has been pleasantly identified...
...Amateur Gentleman set records in several London theatres. It was made by Fairbanks at the Gaumont plant, with money supplied by a London syndicate headed by Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, rich, conservative M. P. from St. Marylebone. A large canvas of early 19th Century London, it preserves with florid elegance the swagger of its period. In the early 1800's a man could be hanged for stealing thirteen pence. When Mr. Barty, a retired prizefighter turned innkeeper, is suspected of a theft far more serious, his son Barnabas (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) equips himself as a gentleman of quality...