Word: horridness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unwillingness to accept the conventional limitations of femininity, she has been remembered. Her influence in succeeding generations has been powerful and, in the main, propitious; although today she receives the same reverence that small boys tender to Buffalo Bill, from wretched demimondaines who imagine that their dreary chirpings, their horrid -amusements bear a close resemblance to the more graceful if less temperate indiscretions of the immortal Ninon. The history of her long and erratic career (1615-1705) is well recounted by Author Austin, without evidence of vast research, in his shallow, swift running style. He regards her misdemeanors with...
Walsenburg is Colorado's "Wobbly" (I. W. W.) capital. The Industrial Commission, from the "Wobbly" point of view, was certain to whitewash the mine operators for refusing to honor "Wobbly" demands or to admit "Wobblies" to a pay-raise lately given to company-union men. A horrid scene ensued...
...Horrid to many a small boy was a proposal made last week by Director Edward P. Smith, of New York State's summer high schools. Let public schools be open the year round, said he, instead of on the present schedule of forty weeks or less. "Our forty-week year dates from the time when we were an agricultural people, when pupils were needed for harvesting crops. We have exactly the reverse of that condition...
...receive his lawyer-friend John H. Clarke, onetime (1916-24) Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. They talked League of Nations, World Court, peace movements, until Mr. Clarke could be shown Grandson McGean. Mr. Clarke gave favorable judgment. . . . After supper, read Mother India by Katherine Mayo, about horrid conditions in a backward society. ... To bed at 10:30 o'clock...
Bent, his withered left arm hanging loosely by his side, the fallen All Highest went on: "While ministers with olive branches in their hands are discussing peace, I see jealousy among the nations steadily increasing. New experiments are made with U-boats, torpedoes, ex- plosives and horrid gases, and secret discussions are carried on on the employment of poisonous gas on the oceans. Besides transocean flights, secret duration flights are made by planes heavily loaded with bombshells, so that one must consider the possibility of being at- tacked suddenly...