Word: floridity
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...great vault of Atlantic City's "world's largest" Convention Hall, national trysting place of bigwig and bruiser, was filled, last week, with fine dust raised by the heels of 10,000 school teachers. For six days they peered and poked at florid displays of stickers, building material, motorbuses, soap. They were harangued with the eloquence of over 300 orators. When the pedagogs decamped they took from the 60th anniversary convention of the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence impressions that will more or less affect each one of their charges, some...
...husband (Melvyn Douglas) to regain the bliss of their honeymoon in its original vicinity near Vichy, France. The man becomes practically convinced that reunion is desirable. The woman feels sure it is not. Their differences are settled when she is killed in the collapse of a hotel elevator. This florid metal grill contrivance, in the best open Gallic style, is the most interesting element, architectural or personal, in the play...
Players who have done well at pool or straight billiards often take up three-cushion, find it the most satisfying because it is the hardest. Curly-haired, florid Johnny Layton was the best pocket billiard player in the world before he decided that knocking balls into pockets was dull compared to pure cueing. When he won his first championship he went home to Sedalia, Mo., where he had become proficient during long sleepy days when, if you were not playing pool at the smoke house, there was nothing to do but count the cars on Ohio Street, or go down...
Physical fitness was the insistent credo of great-bodied, florid, sandy-haired Mr. 0. He governed his charges like an ironhanded country squire, his severity being tempered on occasion by notable Mrs. O, herself the mother of two Pomfret boys. William and Frederick. When a boy slouched round-shouldered out of the dining room. Mr. O's eye was upon him and that boy was sent to get more exercise, more fresh air. Except for a real excuse, every boy had to play football and Mr. O went to the field every day to watch one and all, issue brusque...
Into a much-disputed Senate seat-front row on the aisle-he gingerly lowered himself. On his florid face was a grim grin. He was sitting, if not "seated.'' in the Senate...