Word: nightmarish
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After six and one-half nightmarish months, the Senate last week wound up its consideration of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. It passed the Bill 53 to 31. The measure now goes to conference between the House and Senate for adjustment of differences before President Hoover can decide whether to sign...
...civilization fighting the throes of corruption : normal human feelings, human values are worthless, no longer existent; the most perverted, grotesque exaggeration is the rule. Author Neumann has laid on both somber and gruesome colors with a heavy hand. Whether or not a caricature it is a big picture, horrible, nightmarish...
...male Circe, Author James Joyce transforms upstanding, understood words into nightmarish, subconscious semblances; his latest book cannot be read, it. must be puzzled over. In his famed Ulysses, this Jabberwocky manner cropped out only in occasional shoals and semi-submerged reefs; most of it was plain sailing. But Ulysses, describing the events of one Dublin day, was a daybook. Work in Progress, of which Tales Told of Shem and Shaim are three disconnected fragments, describes the thoughts of one Dublin dreamer, is a night-book. He who runs will not be able to read; he will have to slow down...
...madman was a clergyman and Conductor, when you receive a fare haunted him all the way to Boston from the moment when "the train started and the car-wheels began their 'clack-clack-clack-clack-clack' ". . . The funeral was a nightmarish medley of blue and buff trip slips for three-cent fares to Heaven...
...face full of Jewish flesh and ingenuity would have beamed forth over a nightmarish mechanical design-the canary cries, watering the sensitive plant, which blushes, warming the matchhead, which ignites, inspiring the cat to commit suicide. In this case a high-grade bellboy might have been able to name the handsome patron: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The desk clerk could probably have named Mr. Goldberg's companions: Cartoonists Clare Briggs and Bud Fisher. . . . The first formal and annual dinner of the Cartoonists of America was a large event in a circle where events are not numerous...