Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London's once celebrated Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals (others: John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, and Bell's sister-in-law Virginia Woolf), a vociferous champion of such post impressionists as Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin in the early 1900s when other Britons thought them horrid; of cancer; in London...
Next, Billy embroils himself in simultaneous engagements with two horrid girls who hold no appeal for him. Prissy Barbara, a vacuous townie whose jaw drops when he puts his hand on her knee, and Rita, a shrew with large breasts and a gelding tongue, are constantly on the point of finding Billy out. Hopping in frantic secrecy between these charmers keeps his nights occupied--but offers no more satisfaction than his job, or bumbling duplicities...
...written a lucid critique of Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers in the current issue, is obviously a brilliant reviewer. Norman Mailer who reviews Mary McCarthy's The Group on the front page of the same issue is, on the other hand, a useless and horrid contributor...
John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, reacted with "pure, horrid gloom" to the prospect of a new access road at the corner of the building. "I can see why they'd want it," Finley conceded; "all this pressure from Detroit and the ghastly Chevrolets they keep turning out. But it would be horrible. It would be the final victory of inhumanity...
Swart, frog-faced Pierre Laval had the look of a man born to play a horrid role. And in the popular Gallic fairy tale that still passes for the history of France during World War II, he has always made an ideal ogre-a sinister greasy eminence who bamboozled the National Assembly into capitulating in 1940 and dragged Marianne in the muck by collaborating with Germany. When gallant Charles de Gaulle returned to slay this monster and (with some small American help) deliver France from thralldom, his countrymen threw Laval into a traitor's grave, hoping that five years...