Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sarah Delano Roosevelt, mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, returned to the U. S. from Europe, denied that Grandson John had squirted champagne on the Mayor of Cannes. "Poor John,"she grieved, "they should not have invented that horrid story. He is a very nice boy and was with me most of the time. Grandma doesn't like that...
...artist, who makes no secret of the complete hospitality he has enjoyed in more than one "igloo," Rockwell Kent has, when he felt like it, signed his letters to the New Masses "Yours for the Revolution." After newspapers had interpreted Artist Kent's message as an encouragement to horrid revolt in Puerto Rico, Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples of the Treasury Department's Procurement Division solemnly demanded an explanation, let it be known that the murals were not finally approved nor paid for. Greatly amused, however, was energetic Forbes Watson of the Treasury's division of painting...
...that the northern part of the State has two great bridges, one across the Bay, the other across the Golden Gate, lately opened with two gigantic fiestas (TIME, Nov. 23 & June 7). For Southern California it is worse that it contains a bridge which has made a lot of horrid news- Pasadena's notorious "suicide bridge," the long, aqueduct-like structure spanning 158½-ft.-deep Arroyo Seco in which squats the Rose Bowl. According to local legend, when this bridge was built in 1912, several workmen were buried alive in the concrete and their tortured spirits haunt...
...evening last week Apiarist Van de Poele went to Boston's Radio Station WEEI to talk about bees, took along a hive of 30,000 bees for sound effect. Nervous after his microphone ordeal, he struck the hive against a studio door, dropped it. Out with a horrid hum swarmed all 30,000 bees. While spectators and staff members fled, the beeman valiantly scooped his charges back into the studio with bare bands, slammed the door...
RODIN : IMMORTAL PEASANT-Anne Leslie-Prentice-Hall ($3). Lively biography of a lively subject, the lusty, redheaded, great French sculptor, whose eventual fame at 60 left undimmed the traits which prompted Robert Louis Stevenson's wife to call him "a horrid...