Word: high-flown
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...people who read confession magazines, says Macfadden Publications, are "Wage-Town" folks. More than 80% of readers are women, mostly married and in the 25-30 age group. Slightly more than 50% finished high school. Their income levels are below-average. Thus, the confession slicks never indulge in drawn-out, complex psychological unravelings or high-flown dialogue...
...antibiotics. Dr. Todd began shooting him full of vitamins, but Nixon was still able to deliver only 16 minutes of his Oklahoma City speech. Filling in briefly for him after that was his wife and campaign companion, Pat Nixon, who made up in charm what her talk lacked in high-flown political oratory. Said Pat: "We're very willing to work night and day and to join with you in trying-in our attempt-to elect our great President and in working for the great cause that all of us have. Thank...
...when audiences went sour on all the high-flown words, Operettist Rudolf Friml sweetened them up with some pleasant, sugary music. The Vagabond King ran for 511 performances on Broadway, and had every high-school tenor in the country gargling such sentimental favorites as Only a Rose, Someday and The Vagabond Song. Hollywood made a movie of the musical in 1930-not to mention two film versions of the McCarthy play in 1920 and 1938-and now the poor poet's corpse has been dug up once again...
...Chicago, testy old (87) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright casually disclosed his latest high-flown fantasy: a one-mile-high, 510-story office building for the Loop. Topped with a 330-ft. TV antenna, it would be four times taller than the Empire State Building. "It's perfectly scientific, and perfectly feasible," he said, brushing aside questions on how he would get 100,000 office workers in and out of the building on time, or what he would do about the planes that cross the area at considerably less than 5,600 ft. "If you're going to have...
...high-flown snobbery, demagoguery, pure assumption, suggestion, innuendo, and thinly veneered venom, I can find no equal to TIME'S April 2 story "Democrats...