Word: floridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Based on stories by E. W. Hornung (Raffles), Stingaree is well-photographed, contains some florid acting by Mary Boland as a fluttery provincial lady, would be routine operetta if it contained more songs...
...body, painfully recalled fitting the clothes which the corpse still wore. In San Jose, where gaunt-faced Thomas H. Thurmond and hulking John Holmes had been jailed after confessing to the crime, red-hot resentment took shape as a mob. Asked if he would call out the militia, florid Governor James Rolph Jr. snorted: "What! Call out the troops to protect those two guys?" By nightfall some 6,000 infuriated Californians were swarming around the jail and on the lawn of a park across the street. When they rushed the jail's iron doors with two great pieces...
...diptych deal. What he paid neither the Metropolitan, Knoedler & Co. nor the Soviet Government would say. Three hundred years ago the acquisition of such treasure would have been just cause for a three-day civic celebration. It did cause Manhattan art critics to launch columns of the most florid writing since the death of James Gibbons Huneker. Excerpts : Edward Alden Jewell (Times) : "Yet if the Crucifixion be esteemed a truly inspired example of the Flemish miniaturist's artistry . . . full of a robust tenderness that climbs in the Christ to agonized sublimity . . . The Hell, monstrous on its minuscule scale...
...best-hated man in public service. He interprets the literal law of Congress as to how money should be spent and from his decisions there is no appeal. The legal authority for spending 5? is as important to him as a $1,000,000,000 appropriation. A short, florid man, he is personally affable, officially inexorable...
...Granddaughter of the du Maurier who wrote Trilby, daughter of Actor Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier writes with a great deal more solemnity and a good deal less charm than her grandfather, but she has aptitude and intelligence. The Progress of Julius, her third novel, is a florid 325-page portrait polished off with workmanlike aplomb...