Word: hideous
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...night about a year ago a hideous row broke out in the baroness' shack. Scullion Lorenz took shelter with the neighboring Wittmers for several months. After a while he returned to the baroness...
They got sick in great smoking contest, behind the bushes, or from eating the Welsh rarebit which the Tennessee Shad concocted of cheese and witch-hazel. They invented a Goldbergian "Sleep Prolonger" (alarm clock to window to heat register) which, produced in commercial quantities, made the night hideous by performing at any hour except the right one. They formed a Criminal Club, a Housebreakers' Union, presented in Chapel a solid mass of shaved pates. Dink Stover, later to win fame at Yale, carried his whole Latin class by signalling with a pair of mobile ears whenever The Roman, their...
Such events as these at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. last week made most of the conversation in the lobbies of the town's heroically hideous mid-Victorian hotels, full for the first time since...
...upon contemporary political and social discussions." But old Author Wells is rationalizing long after the fact of young Author Wells. He now calls The Island of Dr. Moreau "an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time...
This morning at the mystic hour of 8 o'clock the sly Seniors will gather in front of Holworthy Hall to go on their annual picnic. In spite of the protests of many years the morning will be made hideous by the blowing of horns and other tortures...