Word: turgid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate; after a six-week illness; at Swope, Va. He joined the Senate staff at the age of 23, recorded the induction of every Vice President since Schuyler Colfax (1869), never missed a working day in 65 years. Friendly to most Senators, he edited and rewrote many a turgid declamation before entering it in the Congressional Record. To honor him, Senators ceased talking for one minute last week...
...Class A South American States were beggaring their treasuries last week to fling fleets of battle planes, flotillas of war craft and whole armies of eager young troops upon Leticia, a humid jungle town just under the Equator and 2,500 mi. up the world's biggest river, turgid Mother Amazon who oozes along about as fast as most women walk...
...Seconds (First National) is a turgid cinemelodrama of the moral bankrupting and liquidation of an honorable sucker (Edward G. Robinson). It opens with Robinson assuming the attitude in an electric chair and it is based on the unscientific theory that a man's life unreels itself, complete with dialog, in the two seconds between the first twitch of the electricity and unconsciousness. Recapitulating, Robinson sees himself as a happy steelworker on a girder with his friend (Preston Foster). Soon, still happy, he is refusing to get involved with a pretty, scheming dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne). She fills him full...
...first time a Senate committee sat last week with the avowed intention of answering this red hot question in the affirmative. Human relief has inspired many a turgid speech, many an elaborate bill, but never before has it been made the subject of specific Congressional hearings...
...epic was written in the turgid waters of the Charles yesterday when a fighting Dunster crew went down to defeat under the stern of a Winthrop shell. Although a classic in itself, this event is important as the first in a long and happy series. Another cog has been ground in the ratchet of tradition...