Word: floridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belvidere bankers, the local chambers of commerce and the Chicago Association of Commerce all have doubted this explanation. But up to last week they had failed to find the actual means by which Black Hawk Finance finances itself. "Let them investigate," shouted florid Financier Benham to visitors. "I have nothing to conceal...
...kind of humor. Wodehouse fans regard his lyrics for the Oh!-musicomedies (Oh, Boy, Oh, Lady, Lady! Oh, My Dear!) as best of their kind since the late Sir William Schwenk Gilbert's. Wodehouse once wrote five librettos at the same time, for shows that appeared simultaneously. Baldish, florid-faced, 49, he lives in London, but last spring visited the U. S., went to Holly-wood on a new departure: to write for the cinema. With him went his daughter Lenora ("Snorks") who some months prior had tactfully smuggled out from a party two newly-engaged guests who were...
...charge of prostitution. For two days and nights Mrs. Ricchebuono was locked up while Bernard scurried around, trying frantically but futilely to raise $500 bail. Meanwhile a probation officer had investigated the case, found no evidence of vice. On the third day Rosa Ricchebuono, the picture of fat, florid respectability, was arraigned before Magistrate Jesse Silbermann. He listened to the policeman's story, swept aside good character evidence, sentenced Rosa Ricchebuono to two days' imprisonment, which she had already served...
...stock, Wall Street has not been conscious of any great golden California bear in its menagerie. Embarrassing as it might have been for Transamerica's active management, the Giannini outburst - made be neath Florida's sun, not California's - was soon discounted as a merely characteristically florid sales talk by the ageing mas ter of finance. Meantime, many thousands of Trans america's 200,000 stockholders wrote and traveled to the company's 400 branches to join in this rare game where Little Shots could play pool-partners with Big Shot...
Luana. One proverb of show-business says that first-rate plays become second-rate musicomedies.? Oldtime theatregoers who remember that lush melodrama The Bird of Paradise?in which Lenore Ulric, Laurette Taylor, Lewis Stone, Guy Bates Post once took part?did not find Arthur Hammerstein's florid musical adaptation, Luana, as successful entertainment as its progenitor. Tediously faithful to the original plot in which a princess of the Sandwich Islands marries a young U. S. doctor, only to lose him and destroy herself in a volcano as a sacrifice to her people, Producer Hammerstein has given his show...