Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shifting Tusks. But all was not well, for just behind the King a crisis was developing. Borne by two ebon attendants, the royal gifts-two huge elephant tusks-were pointed in opposite directions which is against all tusk-presentation protocol. Noticing their hideous faux pas at the last moment, each attendant shifted his tusk. They were still pointed in opposite directions. As King Pedro was about to turn to make his official presentation, the Pope noticed that a third shifting of the tusks was about to take place. He held the King's attention until both tusks were pointed...
...Modern Christians: "The damned in the abyss of their torments have no other refreshment than the spectacle of the devils' hideous faces. The friends of Jesus see all around them the modern Christians, and thus it is that they are able to picture hell...
...sins. . . . Some people ate in corners, stuffing themselves secretly, while others starved. ... A common enemy did not bind us together, hunger and danger did not do so, persecution did not, our sex did not. One thing only bound us to comparative peace: the lesson that life was hideous if we surrendered to our hatreds; more livable only when we tried to be decent...
...reads the popular magazines must know, "Lady in the Lake" is something new in movies. You're meant to identify yourself with a private detective through whose eyes you see the picture. If you have the misfortune to succeed, you'll wriggle when you hear yourself (Robert Montgomery) emitting hideous belly-laughs, tossing off smug wisecracks, and kissing a woman who can contort her mouth as if it were a landed cel. But the chances are you won't identify yourself with any body...
Interior decorators, both amateur and pro, have generally had to take what they could get from the designers of chairs, wallpaper and fabrics-and what they got was often unmistakably hideous. Last week the powerful American Institute of Decorators, out to put a little polite pressure on industry, awarded prizes to 1946's best designs, and hoped that industry would take the hint. The decorators' choices went on display in Chicago's Art Institute...