Word: sesquipedalian
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Sixty-three-year-old Henry Fountain Ashurst, U. S. Senator from Arizona, was recuperating in a Washington hospital from a case of shingles. Complained disgruntled Senator Ashurst: "It had ever been my hope, if incapacitated, to suffer from some affliction that might be described by high-sounding sesquipedalian words...
...Gulf Stream in a rowboat to determine the exact date of spring. He has taught Ubangi women to play tiddlywinks on their platter lips. He owns an adjective factory in New Britain, Conn., whence he sallies forth each year, like a vernal Santa Claus, to scatter his sesquipedalian largess to thirstily gaping yokels. These and hundreds of such amiable Munchausenisms have been printed in the U. S. Press about Dexter William Fellows...