Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...living together again. "Katherine" and "George" were unable to stay in love when married since they took for granted they must impose restrictions upon each other-"marital jealousy being, as we all know, a cardinal virtue in our present marriage code though jealousy is demonstrably one of the most hideous vices. . . ." Judge Lindsey urged a legal form that would permit such couples to live together as long as they mutually desired. He thought that the mere knowledge that they could be free at any time by asking for a divorce card at a clerk's window would almost invariably...
Fashionable Simla, mountain resort of Sahibs, got this news, got also news of riots at Amritsar, scene of hideous British butcherings in 1919. Something more serious than anti-moviedom seemed to portend
Quite right, we are altogether unable to realize the artistic qualities of a director who forces horses over a cliff to hideous agony and death and then takes pictures of them! The only people who could are the "strong-minded" persons such as Busch...
...Ambassador to the U. S., Captain Boy-Ed caused such publications as the well poised Outlook to print the following denunciation of his activities: "Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von Papen . . . have been the inspiration if not the agency of the Teutonic plots and conspiracies . . . of all the hideous crimes?arson, dynamiting, murder?committed in this country in a shameless and cowardly attempt to stop our supplies from going to the Allies...
...Irving Place and 14th Street, Manhattan, one afternoon last week looked at one another suspiciously, each feeling that the rest had no business there. In the theatre of memory one sits alone. But the members of this audience tolerated one another because their theatre was a reality? a hideous brown edifice, the Academy of Music, about to be torn down by the Consolidated...