Word: horridness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...demands for formal action. One Californian wired to Senator Hiram Johnson urging "proper protest against . . . insult." Nothing happened. The Strange Death of President Harding was widely circulated and reported in the U. S. last spring. But the U. S. press, while feeling obliged to report the book's horrid insinuation that Mrs. Harding did away with her husband, at the same time took pains to set forth the unsavory record and reputation of Author Means, ex-convict. Not so the Vancouver Sun, which announced its feature with a sheet made up like the front page of an unspeakably yellow...
...four years ago in Manhattan's New Yorker. These two disreputable old harridans, whooping with unseemly mirth at rowdy subtleties, made Artist Arno's reputation. Says Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley, introducing this latest book of Arno drawings: "When they [the Whoops Sisters] bounded, with their muffs and horrid hats, from the pages of the New Yorker, 50 years of picturized joking in this country toppled over with a crash." Now Peter Arno is a New Yorker mainstay, Manhattan's caricaturist-of-the-hour; his unique but not inimitable style is beginning to be copied. Benchley, a serious...
...dignity of his attention. But President Hoover is no Roosevelt with a brazen power to shout down the other fellow, no Coolidge with a skin time-toughened to public criticism. Three aspects of the Kelley charges made them especially obnoxious to Mr. Hoover: 1) they dealt with Oil, that horrid substance which so blackened the Harding Administration; 2) they appeared in the World, of all newspapers the one whose good or bad opinions can touch Mr. Hoover most sharply; 3) they impugned his favorite Cabinet officer, his old friend Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur...
...today's is a far cry from the National Police Gazette which, some 80 years ago, announced: "We offer this week a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions . . . in various parts of the country." The story of that lusty childhood, and the glorious heyday that was to follow during the "gaslitera" is told by Edward Van Every in his book Sins of New York-As "Exposed" by The Police Gazette (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) which appeared last fortnight. Few-even of those who remember the Gazette in every barber...
...indulgences, some effort to arrogate special privileges to individual selves, some pride of opinion, some intellectual arrogance, and some close-mindedness, but these would appear as they are, merely as blemishes upon the portrait. Each college generation has it within its power to refine or to smudge this portrait." Horrid Picture. More doleful was the outlook of eloquent, beetle-browed little Warden Bernard Iddings Bell of St. Stephens College (New York), whose views appear in the current Bookman. Excerpt: "Assurances that illiteracy is decreasing among us or that many more children than used to go on nowadays to secondary school...