Word: turgid
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Since March 1928, when Freeman F. Gosden, onetime egg-bearer for Thurston the Magician, became the long-suffering Amos, and Charles J. Correll, onetime Peoria bricklayer, became turgid, blustering Andy, they have had but one vacation -eight weeks in 1934. Now 43 and 52, respectively, they have salted away plenty, earned a rest. Their last reported salary (1938) was $7,500 weekly...
Despite their turgid libretto, the Soviet pair sometimes make the usual Hollywood boy & girl look puerile...
...first Army exercises were fought out in North Carolina and Louisiana. Men slogged through river mud throwing pontoon bridges across turgid rivers. They trudged down back roads in flanking maneuvers, dust caking sweaty faces. They took cover (as they did not last year) when strafing "enemy" planes swooped over. They used motorized, mechanized spearheads, employed fifth columnists to gain objectives...
From China, with footslogging infantry troops and all the rolling forces he could spare, Chiang Kai-shek moved south to meet them. Chiang threw another force into Burma far to the east, by fierce battling kept the Jap on the west side of the turgid Salween River...
...points the intimate realism in describing Flip's artistic ambitions, her crush on Professor Brooks Creighton, and her feeling of estrangement from the life at home, approaches the bitter dissection of college life in Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel"-though Miss Carrick's approach lacks his sweeping inclusiveness and turgid power. Her polished style and delicate portrayal temperament are more in the urbane manner of Willa Cather. Only the concluding chapter betrays a novice hand. The threads of the plot, unsnarled but not firmly and finally knotted, dangle rather loosely...