Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kashruth Association, guild of ritual food inspectors, met during the week in anger. Some 6,500 kosher butcher shops feared for their supplies. Half as many kosher delicatessen stores were worried about their spicy provender; householders in The Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn chirped excitedly. All because of horrid disclosures of racketeering in the city's kosher food markets (see p. 15). The Kashruth Association called conditions in the kosher chicken markets "a blot upon the good name of the Jew." The Kashruth Association could no longer, it announced, stand responsible for the ritual cleanliness of the delicatessen stores...
...play opens in cheerless Cottage D of a midwestern reform school. Onto this scene is led a collection of small, wary ruffians: Little Deadman ("He won't let nobody touch him"); pudgy Pieface; Horsethief, whose malady is obscure and horrid. Poison mean is Roy Wells (John Drew Colt), ringleader of the potato-peeling "Centipede's Club." Robert Locket (Edwin Philips) is the most sensitive young prisoner, a fact which early bodes him ill. In him Mrs. Sanger, wife of the weak cottage supervisor, takes a strange and unnatural interest...
...Clarence True Wilson, Methodist moralist, and in less generous vein Dr. Francis Scott McBride for the Anti-Saloon League, promised to cooperate. Not so Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, the bustling matriarch of the W. C. T. U., whose plan is to find horrid examples of what 3.2% beer can do and use them to club down Repeal in perhaps 16 states, three more than enough to kill it.* She replied to Crusader Clark: "I assume you wired me for publicity purposes...
Tammany Hall furnished the first horrid example of what was in store for Democratic organizations that tried to buck the White House. On the first House roll call passing the President's vital economy bill, three Manhattan and seven Brooklyn Democrats voted against it. In the van of the opposition was Brooklyn's freckled Cullen, assistant majority leader of the House, who explained that he had made campaign pledges against salary pension cuts. Said he: "I'm with the President 100% but I'd given my word to my constituents...
...morning in the tower. The Vagabond is awake. Outside the birds are singing in nasty, shrill voices; horrid, sticky buds disfigure the trees; below, a surpassingly unattractive girl is passing. It is cold, and revoltingly early. The Vagabond ponders a moment, with a puzzled look; suddenly it comes to him: his inner standard has returned...