Word: horridness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orange grove near Orlando, Fla., last month, a U. S. Department of Agriculture employe cut open an orange, prepared to sink his teeth into it, halted at a horrid sight?maggots! He fairly ran to a laboratory where, under a microscope, he made a terrible discovery: the grubs were larvae of Halterophora capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly), most vicious and destructive of dipterous pests, never before found in the U. S. Out went the alarm over Florida. Inspection showed that the infestation had spread through three counties ?Seminole, Orange and Lake American Legionaries volunteered as fruit inspectors...
...Buffalo, five policemen were needed last week to handle traffic on the roads near Pine Hill cemetery. Reason: ghastly-ghostly voices and music were issuing from a tomb. Amateur sleuths at length discovered that the horrid sounds, refracted by the marble mausoleum, were echoes from a radio loudspeaker in front of a distant shop...
...press scares Russians was added, last week,* a potent U. S. citizen 89 years of age, gaunt, and frail with parchment skin and eyes that seem always sunken behind dark-lensed spectacles. A searing editorial in Besbozhnik (The Godless), famed anti-religious organ of the Soviet State, revealed, as horrid fact, that 65.000 "Baptist Bibles" have recently been printed in Russia. Since someone must have paid for them, and since John Davison Rockefeller Sr. is rich, philanthropic and Baptist, Editor Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison Rockefeller Jr., as the actual...
...telephonic caller who immediately replied, "Very well-I will hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny, novel and grisly to provoke the intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles...
There are six acts of vaudeville on the bill this week at the B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre. One of them is very very good, and the rest are horrid. Only we really don't mean that. Out of the five horrid ones there are two that are pretty fair. One is the Misses Kouns who sing songs of old in a very sweet way, and the other is a dance act by Fowler and Tamara. These latter do all manner of things with the castanets and some dancing besides. We could say a few things about the other acts...