Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Telegram had moved to dismiss the case but wanted the court to reserve decision long enough for Telegram witnesses to refute some of the State's horrid testimony. The court ignored the request, dismissed without ado. Next day Editor Felix Bruner told Telegram readers-and all 25 Scripps-Howard newspapers reprinted-what the defense would have said if it had the chance: C. That prosecution's witnesses were disgruntled employes discharged by Scripps-Howard...
...things to sing it in New York. But the Metropolitan Opera Company would not permit Jeritza or any other soprano to behave like Salome on its respectable stage, to shed seven veils one after the other in the notorious dance before King Herod or to grovel before a horrid head of St. John the Baptist. Once, 25 years ago, it attempted to give Salome and Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, the late Mr. Morgan's spiritual adviser,? was so upset that a directors' meeting was called, the opera withdrawn from the repertoire because it was "objectionable and detrimental...
...liquor for the sane- Drink deep! Let scepticism reign And its astringence clear the brain! To the Cherrells, who had sound ideas on income (which they pronounced "ink 'em") but thought more of Service to the State, Wilfrid was not a catch. More, a horrid rumor about him began to be bruited about the London clubs: threatened by a Moslem fanatic in Darfur, he had turned Moslem under pressure! Letting England down, what? Worst of all, the fellow had written a poem about it, had the impudence to publish it. The ensuing scandal ran his book up into...
Among other horrid, startling things the sheetlet said: "Both Macaulay and Kreuger won the confidence of their governments and then proceeded to swindle their people. They both faked their books and presented such balance sheets, padded with fictitious assets, as best suited their purposes and thus deceived those upon whom they preyed. They were both colossal liars. . . . Kreuger did not believe in an afterlife and was frank and honest about it. Macaulay . . . was a religious hypocrite and therefore differed from Kreuger in this respect only by being more contemptible and more dangerous...
Britain's long, lean Labor worm turned decisively last week. Over their kippers, toast and China tea bloated stockbrokers and belted earls read in their Tory Daily Telegraph this horrid news: "In three days organized British Labor has undergone a swift, violent transition from nonrevolutionary to revolutionary policy...