Word: orotundity
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...Winston himself was not around to hear the Queen speak his words. He was home in bed working on a speech of his own, a far more orotund affair (see INTERNATIONAL) than the brief, ten-minute address he had given his sovereign. Both speeches reflected the same Churchillian hope: to keep the Tory government in command for its full term. "We were elected [in 1951] for a five-year period under what is called the Quinquennial Act," Churchill told the House of Commons that afternoon, rolling his tongue happily over the long, Latinate word. As outlined by the Queen...
...thumping, toe-tromping activist who would rather hip-shoot a gun at bottles tossed into Manila Bay than put away one of Quirino's famed two-hour breakfasts at Malacafian Palace, with pancakes, papaya and fried lapu-lapu (a choice fish). He lacks the usual Filipino impulse for orotund oratory, fancy dress and luxurious living. Every month he turns over his 1,000-peso ($500) salary to his pretty, shy wife, Luz. In his five years in politics, he has won an unchallenged reputation for honesty...
Opening Broadside. With a flat, unemotional voice and sparse phrases that contrasted sharply with his antagonist's flow of words and orotund delivery, the wartime U.S. Chief of Staff coldly attacked both Douglas MacArthur's proposals and his conduct. Said Marshall...
With a Clifton Webb playing the lead and some bright scripters on the job, the picture might have turned into a devastating satire of radio's foolish age. Veteran Colman does well enough in his orotund English style, but the writers fail him almost completely. Basically, they miss the vital point-which Miracle on 34th Street caught so well-that the story's fantastic premise should be played out as if the impossible were really happening. Instead, the film has been pitched on a wobbly note of broad burlesque with overtones of self-conscious whimsy, e.g., the soap...
...Herald's able music critic, is probably the brightest newspaper writing done in the city; its editorials last year by John Crider, editorial page editor, were good enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for general excellence. The Herald's biggest circulation asset is Sportwriter Bill Cunningham, whose orotund mastery of the cliche is often a frontpage delight to readers. Wrote Cunningham from the Florida training camps last week: "Theodore Samuel Williams, the quondam splendid splinter, caught one squarely upon the schnozzola and propelled it in a spectacular parabola all the way into the unchartered [sic'] reaches beyond...