Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With alarm, the Daily Mail's Correspondent G. Ward Price reported that the horrid word "spiv" was "on every lip." He thought that it had something to do with people observed carrying large sums of cash, presumably to dodge taxes. A gentleman sardonically signing himself Sam Johnson asked in the Daily Telegraph: "Is 'spiv' . . . an abbreviation; if so, of what? Is it an importation; if so, from whence? Or is it perchance compounded from initials-'Social Parasites in Vehicles' . . . or the 'Society for the Promotion of Illegal Ventures...
...instead of an immediate announcement, the young couple were condemned to even more secrecy. Gossip columnists searched in vain for signs of them in Mayfair and the West End. Horrid rumors that the whole affair was off circulated among Britain's matchmakers. To see his girl at all, Philip had to slip secretly through a side door of the Palace or arrange clandestine rendezvous through his cousin, the Duchess of Kent. Then, last week, after sounding out his Government and his Dominion Ministers, King George inserted a notice in the Court Circular. "It is with the greatest pleasure...
This scheme still has a horrid ring to free-enterprising airmen. But some of those who had been fighting the Chosen Instrument a few years ago have privately come around to Patterson's and Trippe's way of thinking. There have not been enough converts to cause a significant shift in thinking about U.S. air policy. But Pat Patterson is sure that the U.S. will soon have to face the hard fact that, in an international air world peopled by monopolistic Chosen Instruments, the U.S. will have to use the same kind of weapon...
Ingrid Bergman was another on Louis' list. His horrid word for her coifs: "vapid." Miss Bergman scarcely knew what to think. Simultaneously, the smart-chart Town & Country published a full-page, seven-picture spread of Bergman hairdos, held her tresses up to its readers as "a shining example...
...just-miss effect is bound to be prevalent, and unless a skillful and thorough editorial hand guides the magazine more carefully in the future, "Radditudes" will find itself with a chronic weakness. In "Afraid of Happiness," for instance, Miss Susan Seidman makes a brave attempt at satirizing a special horrid type of love-story--the sort that appears in periodicals of the "True Romance" ilk. For the most part, she achieves her effect subtly, but she spoils the total impression by an occasional broad and incongruous touch. The borderline between burlesque and satire is a hazy one; nonetheless...