Word: turgidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really capable. Few can reach Senator Sheppard's mark of ten hours; none have threatened the world's record hung up by LaFollette back in the turgid days of 1908, when, without prompting, he said nothing continuously for eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes. On the other hand, Senator Sheppard eked out his discourse with selections from the Covenant of the League of Nations,-there being nothing else at hand sufficiently long to be helpful,-but these are effete days. Another contender, the pious Senator Brookhart, intends to read the Bible from cover to cover. It is an intriguing prospect...
...which distrubs the Modern Church is the theme for a series of brilliant, penetrating and able sketches of English Churchmen. The charm of stylistic finesse, literary taste, and epigrammatic terseness can best be appreciated in the books of A Gentleman With a Duster when we compare them with the turgid, club-footed fumbling of the author of the pitiful Mirrors of Washington. There is a difference between a blunderbuss and a Lewis...