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Miss Phoenix possessed not only a great deal of energy but a lively morbid imagination as well. It is rumored that she was the originator of the legend of The Beast that Walks in the Night, a horrid mythical creature that perpetrates outrageous crimes upon unsuspecting announcers...

Author: By Rona C. Harris, | Title: R-Squared Link With Tech Comes At Peak of 10-Year Development | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

...white-haired speaker stopped his talk. He called the woman names: "a Jew mistress ... a horrid, degenerate, sexual pervert," and other choice epithets, ending his attack with, "you filthy man, you." The woman almost fainted. She stayed, but said no more...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Father Feeney, Rebel from Church, Preaches Hate, Own Brand of Dogma to All Comers | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...horried person," the priest shouted back. "I can see by your horrid, filthy, sexually degenerate face what you are. You're a horrible example of a Protestant fraud, everyone knows that, it's a wonder any decent girl will look in your face. Everyone in the park knows...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Father Feeney, Rebel from Church, Preaches Hate, Own Brand of Dogma to All Comers | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

Machine-made cigars have been old stuff in the U.S. ever since the late George Washington Hill, master huckster, coined the advertising slogan, "SPIT is a horrid word, but it's worse on the end of your cigar." Until Hill and his machine-made Cremos, the U.S. had happily smoked stogies rolled by hand. It was Hill's contention that cigar makers' saliva held the stogies together at their tip, but cigar makers insisted that they used vegetable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Men v. Machines | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

Hearings on the bill, which start soon, promise to be lively. Krueger's lawyers have horrid tales to tell, not only of mink but of men. They tell of a male sex criminal who was given stilbestrol to keep him under control. His genitals shrank, but his breasts developed alarmingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Case of the Barren Mink | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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