Word: horridness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unprincipled villain named Sevilla (Stiano Braggiotti) is about to lure away to Paris Betty Findon (Daphne Warren Wilson), an impressionable young woman who does not know the horrid fate which awaits her in South America. Her childhood sweetheart, Colin Derwent (Bramwell Fletcher, a capable young Englishman returned to Broadway from Hollywood), can save her only by murdering Sevilla. A barrister, young Derwent has to use all the tricks his quick mind can provide to save himself from the gallows...
...theory that students are constitutionally incapable of absorbing facts from books, and that a Professor must therefore deliver two or three lectures a week in the effort to bolster up whatever opinions he may have with a body of elementary fact. For evidence that the result is horrid, one need only look to such courses as Government 1, History 11, English 28. One might continue; but a typical list would fill a column. Compelled by regulation, and by a false notion of undergraduate capacity, the speaker fills up his thirty of forty lectures a year with text book material...
Smuggled out of Tralee, General O'Duffy told sympathizers in Killarney. "I was hit on the head five times with hammers." In Dublin meanwhile overzealous de Valera sympathizers appeared on the streets with horrid weapons: shillalahs studded with nails. Pitching into two Blue Shirts who were going to a dance at the Mansion House of Dublin's Lord Mayor, they whanged them without mercy, injured one Blue Shirt so severely that a surgeon had to take ten stitches to close the nail wounds in his head...
Under suspicion of having connived with the British, General Mulcahy screamed for a thorough investigation of the horrid charge. The talemonger who had given President de Valera his "information" backed down...
...this had a horrid sound, but Wall Street was disposed to be tolerant. The pyramided set-up was no secret; the public which had bought the preferred had had a chance to cash in on their bonus of common at prices that they probably never dreamed they would get. U. S. & Foreign had paid $11,000,000 in dividends on the publicly-owned preferred and was still paying. U. S. & International paid preferred dividends until this year but there was no reason to believe that eventually they would not be resumed...