Word: floridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daughter of a Congregational minister. Mary Emma Woolley was the first of her sex to be graduated by Brown University (1894). At Wellesley she taught Bible history before her call to the presidency of Mount Holyoke 32 years ago. A large, florid woman, she dresses in sombre clothes, wears low-heeled shoes, believes "no lady would smoke." Once she sharply-contradicted a newshawk who dared ask about a "startling statement" she had made: "Young man. I never say startling things." In her yellow stucco house at South Hadley, Mass, she lives with Jeannette Marks, professor of English Literature, surrounded...
Approved a Cabinet spanking quietly administered to florid, genial James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions, who had planned for himself & family a glorious round-the-world junket, visiting all the dominions preliminary to next year's Imperial Conference at Ottawa...
...only remaining method for encouraging buying is to improve the product and to lower its price. Reluctantly and as a last resort some industries have decided to make long awaited technical improvements in their processes and goods. Perhaps the stolid engineer will soon occupy the throne which the florid sales man has abdicated...
...small, nut-brown Mahatma Gandhi came last week that slightly florid human mountain, the House of Commons. In effect a special meeting of the House convened around him, using for this purpose the historic Grand Committee Room. Barefoot and barelegged as usual...
...sixth floor of the Chicago Daily News building, in the office from which the late Publisher Walter Ansel Strong used to look out across the Chicago River, a new occupant, big, sandy-haired and florid, made himself at home last week. Beaming with pride, he alternately jumped to the telephone, plugging one ear against the shriek of tugboat whistles to catch words of congratulation in the other, and strode happily through the flower-decked reception room, the Victor F. Lawson Memorial board room, with its walls and fireplace transplanted from the founder's home. He was Col. William Franklin...