Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Coast, hopeful of a great postwar future for its $190,000,000 war-born aluminum industry, has recently been beset by a horrid rumor. It was whispered that WPB, wallowing in an aluminum surplus, was already planning to shut down many a West Coast plant. Last week the rumors got a solid grounding. The Office of Defense Transportation suggested to WPB that to effect "maximum" savings in transportation, some four-fifths of the West Coast's low price aluminum production would have to be stopped. The raw material, alumina, is another burden on the West's overloaded...
Chief Magistrate Henry H. Curran of Manhattan, who writes in his spare time, encountered that horrid word again in a probation officer's report, promptly dashed off one of his publishable letters. In the lingo of social workers, practically all brothers and sisters who are not twins are siblings. "To me," wrote the Judge to all probation officers, "it has a very doubtful sound, dubious, dismal, desperate. . . . How would you like to be called ... a coystrel* or a curmudgeon. . . . Exit sibling...
Postmaster General Frank Comerford Walker, portly, pink Democratic national chairman, once had a horrid experience with some dice-so said the National Police Gazette's publisher. Applying for restoration of the Gazette's mailing privilege (revoked for lewdness), the publisher testified that Walker had objected to the magazine's dice advertisements because he once bought a pair to entertain friends at home, took all the money with an innocent twist of the wrist, and later discovered that one of the dice was loaded. From an assistant to Postmaster General Walker, the press got the pained retort that...
...rose Michigan's punctilious, little-known Congressman George Anthony Dondero, 59, to tax his fellow Congressmen for their manners. Out went cigars, down went newspapers and cocked feet as he cried out against smoking, reading, foot-cocking, and the horrid practice of calling one's fellow statesmen by their first names. Two year ago dogged Congressman Dondero made virtually the same speech...
...teaming with George Dillon. Captain Hugh Hyde is the Crimson center, with Mike Fansler and Jack Torgan at the guards. The hoopsters lately have been like the little girl in the nursery rhyme: when they are good, they are very, very good; but when they are bad, they are horrid...