Word: floridity
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...Dapper, florid Ed Hill, whose wife and newspaper cronies call him "Bill." is distinctly of the Frank Ward O'Malley school of news reporting. Born 48 years ago in Aurora, Ind., he attended University of Indiana where his English professor would emphasize examples of journalism by pointing to the New York Sun. Hill determined to get a job on the Sun and, after pestering the city editor for weeks he finally did get a "temporary"' assignment, which lasted 22 years...
When the Duke of Manchester's second wife, Kathleen Ethel Dawes Montagu, sued through the estate's trustees to get the Manchester jewels, furs and laces from his first wife Helena Zimmerman Montagu, the florid Duke told British reporters. "My trouble is that I've been a mug, always too trustful and willing...
...picture in the problem of the custody of the child of a divorced or aspirated couple; this is a predicament common enough, yet little discussed on the stage, and it would in the proper hands adapt itself to masterly treatment. In "Blonde Venus" this theme is ruined by lurid, florid, tabloid handing which carries the mother from the arms of her Husband, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, and with the leit motif of "a little child shall lead them," back to the arms of her husband...
There is a mild type of typhus, the kind which ordinarily persists in the U. S. Spots of mild typhus resemble the spots of a fading case of measles. Measles spots look like flea bites, are more florid than typhus spots. Measles attack the face, palms and soles. Typhus very seldom does that...
...final heffling of James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, their hulking colleague for a decade, when on March 4, 1931 the 71st Congress was silenced. As the Capitol's double doors closed on his flapping broadcloth coat tails, they believed that his creamy vest, his lush black tie, his florid face and droning voice had passed forever from the scene. Had Alabama not repudiated him in 1930 for political apostasy, electing John Hollis Bankhead in his place? Those who supposed they were through with heffling were mistaken. Last week, in full oldtime regalia, "Tom-Tom" Heflin was back upon...