Word: hideous
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...thing the Stavisky investigations have done is to uncover the hideous corruption of Marseilles' local politics. Ballot boxes are regularly stuffed with names from undertakers' lists. The city is as gangster-ridden as Chicago. Its Capone, a sly ruffian named Paul Carbone, alias Venture, was arrested and accused of complicity in the Dijon murder of Judge Albert Prince. Boss of Marseilles is a one-eyed Corsican Deputy named Simon Sabiani-just Simon to most of Marseilles...
...rise by night to suck the blood of innocent persons. Every Polish peasant knows that the only way to keep a vampire in its grave is to decapitate it, or bury it face down at a crossroads with an oak stake through the heart. This particular vampire was especially hideous, for several of the little girls had been raped...
...Bulgarian entente. The advantages of such an alliance to impoverished Bulgaria were obvious, but there was just one point on which Foreign Minister Jeftitch was insistent. Jugoslavia would join no pact unless the Bulgarian Government could prove its capacity to handle the noisy Macedonian minority that has made life hideous and uncertain in Sofia for many a year. On his honor, Premier Nicholas Mushanoff swore that Bulgarian Macedonians have been as mild as lambs since last June, though up to that time Bulgarian papers reported a Macedonian murder nearly every day. Last major operation was in December 1932, when...
Meanwhile France's White Russian emigres, for whom Conspirator Trotsky kept his big black pistols, made no attempt on his life, but did make his nights hideous. Strange dark figures darted from the shadows, rang the doorbell hour after hour. Tiring of these annoyances other parties organized glee clubs in the street, sang the "Volga Boat Song" until dawn...
...history of the present day, unfolding as it does at more than ten times the rate of the epochs that characterize the usual study of history, manifests itself brutally and almost unbelievably in "The Roosevelt Year." There is no unthinking moment of any public person, no hideous finals of criminal or unfortunate to which the omnipresent photographer has not penetrated...