Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admirable in its interest and difficulty, the other loathe-some in its conditions. If the drama could only be theoretically or hypothetically acted, the fascination resident in its all but unconquerable . . form would be unimpaired, and one would be able to have the exquisite exercise without the horrid sacrifice...
Parson Weems sold his books at fairs, races, sittings of county courts from New York to Georgia-between times "beating up the headquarters of all the good old planters and farmers . . . regardless of roads horrid and suns torrid." He sold Paradise Lost, The Vicar of Wakefield, Robinson Crusoe, Cook's Voyages, the works of Voltaire, Tom Paine and Bunyan and Bard's Compendium of Midwifery, which he touted as "the grand American Aristotle...
...knew his small towns, with their "Four-Flush Drummers from Chicago and St. Louis, smoking Horrid Cigars and talking about the Percentages of the League Teams." Before World War I thousands quoted the fable of the two sisters, upright Louella whose "Features did not seem to know the value of Team Work" and Mae, "short on Intelligence but long on Shape." Louella worked in a hat factory, and every Saturday night the-boss "crowded three dollars on her." Beautiful Mae married a wheat speculator, moved into a Sarcophagus on the Boulevard, hired Louella for $5 as Assistant Cook. (Moral: Industry...
Once again Hollywood has dived into the beehive maze of wartime Washington and come up with a topnotch comedy vehicle. There have been several pictures which used the same background, some of which were very, very good and some of which were horrid. "Standing Room Only" definitely rates with the former class...
...subsidized" and "myth of reprint" were horrid words to his ears, the Digest's tall, balding DeWitt Wallace (with his wife, co-editor and co-owner) gave no sign of it. Said he: "The unusual growth of the Digest in the past ten years has been due in no small degree to the opposition, from time to time, of various magazines. It has had a highly salutary effect in keeping us on our toes editorially. We believe that the product will continue to speak for itself...