Word: nightmarish
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...ought to be. Just two years after his arrival at the pinnacle of his career, the country had swung widely out from behind him. He had sat up until 11:25 on election night, watching the swing take place as the returns came in. Now, the morning after, the nightmarish news was not only confirmed but colored darker. Seat after seat of the Republican majorities in Congress were being swept away in what, accurately or not, was being called all over the country an Anti-Administration landslide. There had been bound to be some reaction from the Hoover landslide...
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...