Word: floridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tisdale, a big, florid Alabaman of 45, is director of Du Font's new anti-pest laboratory which was formally opened last week in the suburbs of Wilmington, and of which the formal name is Pest Control Research Section, Grasselli Chemicals Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. A handful of newshawks assembled in the gleaming Nemours building, lunched with Lammot du Pont, who shook each one's hand, spent the afternoon in the battleship-grey laboratory, wound up at the Hotel du Pont...
...blue and white silk ribbons to the main door. From thousands of loyal Italians thronging the streets of Naples went up a mighty roar. To the Princess of Piedmont, Crown Princess Marie-José, had just been born a nine-pound boy "with dark hair, dark eyes and a florid aspect," who may one day sit on the throne of Italy as King Vittorio Emanuele...
Sadly enough, it is Mr. Anderson who is at fault. Those who look upon him as the standard-bearer of poetic drama should be distressed, and justly so, by this, his latest work. Around the sordid scandal of Mayerling he has woven a dashingly domantic fliction, full of florid gestures, plots and counterplots, saved from melodramatic banality only by its insistence on the eternal antithesis between power and justice. The liberal Crown Prince Rudolph schemes to seize the throne from Franz-Joseph, his father, in order to relieve the oppressed people, but even as his coup d'etat succeeds...
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...