Word: floridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members and editors of the liberal News Chronicle, set in motion the first all-party united front against the Chamberlain policies. Moving spirits behind the meeting were: its chairman, tall, scented Duncan Sandys (pronounced sands), son-in-law of Winston Churchill and, like him, an independent Conservative; Randolph Churchill, florid son of Winston, who has tried and failed three times to enter Parliament; Her Grace, the Duchess of Atholl, insurgent Conservative who was recently defeated for re-election to the House of Commons; Vernon Bartlett, News Chronicle correspondent and independent M.P., whose recent election was a severe rebuke...
...trace the development of music printing. In the first fifty years after printing was invented, from 1450 to 1500, no effective system was discovered for writing notes; but, in 1503, Ottavino dei Petrucci contrived movable type of sufficient accuracy to cope with the demands of the elaborate new "florid song," or counterpoint. There is shown a unique selection of Petrucci's editions, which required separate impressions for letters, staffs, and notes...
...critic objected that florid Elmer Gantry compared love to five incompatible things, that this is as absurd as comparing a motor car to a bag of potatoes. Mr. Richards believes metaphors (comparisons) are the root of thinking, and that no metaphor is absurd if there is a specific and intelligible link between the things compared. Mr. Richards recalls that a Harvard English professor once christened his ancient Ford Thaïs (after the heroine of Anatole France's story) because "she had been possessed of many." "If we can do that to a car, successfully," twinkles Mr. Richards, "what...
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...