Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indulgences, some effort to arrogate special privileges to individual selves, some pride of opinion, some intellectual arrogance, and some close-mindedness, but these would appear as they are, merely as blemishes upon the portrait. Each college generation has it within its power to refine or to smudge this portrait." Horrid Picture. More doleful was the outlook of eloquent, beetle-browed little Warden Bernard Iddings Bell of St. Stephens College (New York), whose views appear in the current Bookman. Excerpt: "Assurances that illiteracy is decreasing among us or that many more children than used to go on nowadays to secondary school...
...roar of Zeppelin engines is a horrid sound to British ears. Last week 100,000 of His Majesty's subjects, gathered in the presence of George V and Queen Mary at famed Wembley Stadium, booed and jeered the Graf Zeppelin...
Whether the article on Bernard Norfolk [England's Premier Duke who recently came of age] is true or untrue, I think it is horrid to publish such a thing. In this case, it is completely untrue. The Duke of Norfolk failed to get into Oxford because of his varied and incomplete education (although not by nurse and private tutors as TIME says). He is one of the most intelligent boys I know and I know no boy so well equipped to carry out the tremendous responsibilities with which he has been left...
...many years have passed since angry Cromwellians flung toward Rome the horrid epithet "Whore of Babylon," that even English Protestants were shocked and horrified last week when the official Soviet news-organ Pravda applied to Pope Pius a much milder epithet, "Heavenly Liar...
...very annoying to those who would wade through the tropical growth of bubbling Gallic lack of restraint. In contrast to the precision of other French prose, this translated outburst of M. Escholier indicates that, like the little girl who is very good, French writing when it is bad, is horrid...