Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While one part of the audience blushes and the other part guffaws. Comedian Berle proceeds to imitate a person of uncertain gender, quip about the show girls' fundaments, shout depraved announcements into a loudspeaker. Less mad than Jimmy Durante, less subtle than Willie Howard, Comedian Berle's horrid humor is noisily unique. He seems to get a great deal...
...price of other brands (Corona Perfectos, Bock Panetelas, Villar y Villar, Henry Clay, La Meridiana, La Vencedora, La Carolina) turned out by companies affiliated with American Tobacco Co. Cause of this was not competition of cheaper brands, including American Tobacco's 5? Cremo ("Spit is a horrid word!"), but economies made possible by moving the factories from Havana to Trenton, N. J. Although the Spanish-style factory at Trenton will not be completed for a month, 500 employes have been working in a temporary one, learning the business...
...West, historically Republican, talked as if it would break from its old moorings. Senator Borah said last week: "The West is still any man's fight." Four Mid-West Governors gathering at Sioux City last week to settle the farmers' strike (TIME, Aug. 29; Sept. 5), had the horrid word REVOLUTION dinned into their ears...
...year-old excursion steamer Observation push off from her pier with the usual cargo of workmen going to their jobs on a new-penitentiary on an island in the river. Next instant, deafened by a water-boiling explosion, they saw a great cloud of smoke spouting a horrid spray of bodies, fragments of wood and metal, fragments of bodies over a 200-yard area of land and water...
...AMERICANS ARE SPYING IN JAPAN!" splashed out Tokyo's chauvinistic Kokumin Shimbun last week, exposed the horrid fact that pictures of Japanese business buildings in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe have recently been taken by branch officials of Manhattan's far flung National City Bank...