Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bank is the island's natural dock and shipping side. Wharves, warehouses and railroad tracks thrived there and stretched up the island before society or even social convenience made competitive demands. The commercial coagulation on Manhattan's western bank is no stranger than Cleveland's hideous, eastern waterfront, Cincinnati's and Pittsburgh's smoke-draggled riverbanks or Chicago's fuliginous south shore...
...dresses and jewels dwindled into an almost entirely theoretical question of "women's rights." Harold McCormick, who by this time had gladly produced an affidavit corroborating his wife's statement that she lived abroad, was doubtless glad to see the rumpus dwindle, even after so hideous a sputter, to a conclusion that did not include a senate investigation or even a hanging...
...past, as such, was pleasant. Jed Harris, né Jacob Horowitz, could not remember when his family came from Vienna to live in Newark, N. J. But he could remember living there, in a small and hideous house, and going to high school to get ready for college. Of Yale, too, he had pleasant memories. Not the nostalgic memories of a college hero but the more delicious, spiteful recollection of unpopularity among those whom he has since surpassed. At Yale, Jake Horowitz was not the type. After two years, he left Yale and went to Europe...
...thumb his nose at Marcus Daly. Perhaps in triumph, he went to Manhattan and built himself a house, in the tradition of Butte ugliness. It cost $7,000,000. It held: 130 rooms, 21 bathrooms, a furnace burning 17 tons of coal daily, 5 organs, 1 Turkish bath, a hideous tower, dining rooms on all floors, 4 picture galleries including the best and worst art of all periods. Within this pretentious tomb, Miner Clark lived quietly with his wife and children. He became a familiar figure in Manhattan, strutting down Fifth Avenue, his white hair waving wildly in the wind...
...peasants in other people's fields, predatory hideous money-mad then to your tents, O Israel! After hearing Keynoter Bowers, a colyumist quipped:* "This is not a convention. It's an elephant roast." The New York Times, than which the Democracy has no stauncher supporter, welcomed subsequent aids "to the process of forgetting Mr. Bowers." The New York World apologized: "Certainly one thing may be said. ... It was . . . scorching. . . . Mr. Bowers had no ordinary task. . . . He faced a special problem. . . ." Tolerance. During the Bowers bow-wow there was a well-organized "demonstration" by delegates from Western states when...