Word: hideously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enclosed please find the cover ... I just can't read the magazine with that hideous picture staring at me, nor can I put it aside for it is sure to glare...
Martha watched little Ray with a she-bear's jealousy, insisted on posing as his sister and sharing his honeymoon trysts. When he was wooing one Irene D. La Point of Springfield, Vt., Martha wrote the woman "hideous things" about him. Irene wrote: "You skunk-but I love you, darn it." The romance was broken...
Some of you may have thought that the Nineteenth Century mortgage melodrama was dead, but if so, you have sadly underestimated Hollywood's talent for reincarnation. "In "The Girl from Mauhattan," the second picture at the Pilgrim, the mortgage foreclosure appears with all its hideous threats and Dorothy Lamour as the hapless victim. But a few enticing twists have been added. The villain doing the foreclosing is, of all things, a church looking for a new site, and the hero is an all-American fullback turned minister. Dorothy Lamour, Charles Laughton, and George Montgomery are all involved in this hideous...
...spite of all this, in 1912 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (pronounced Cootch, "not like a sofa") was appointed King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University. "I'm in a hideous funk about it," he wrote to a friend. But the funk didn't last long, and in time Q became one of the most popular lecturers the university had. When he died four years ago at 81, he was still lecturing. Last week, in a short, intimate biography (Arthur Quiller-Couch; Macmillan, $3.50), his friend Fred Brittain, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, tried to tell...
...ancient islanders, who had no metal or even timber, manage to transport the statues over the steep rim of the crater and down the rugged mountain? Their hideous religion may have supplied the motive, but not the means...