Word: horridness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesus Christ, rising from the dead. Apparently illumined by strong light from above, the figure much resembles the heroic Transfiguration over the high altar. Dr. Norwood says he noticed it some time ago. But that is not all. He has also found a Buddha, another Christ, and a horrid Brute Man with slit-eyes, pointed ears and lightning coursing about his head...
...unto himself, doing what he thinks will make for his own individual happiness. What kind of country would we have if this were done?" So last week spoke a New York lady whom everyone knew to be as good as she is rich. She was flaying that horrid bogey, ATHEISM. If there was any apparent incongruity in her denunciation of a "law-unto-oneself." it was because she was Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard, favorite daughter of that prodigious, puny, black-bearded buccaneer, the late Jay Gould, who made a fortune, knew no law. But there was no incongruity...
...variations. Mr. Hyde pursues a music hall girl (Miriam Hopkins) and brutally mistreats her while Dr. Jekyll makes intermittent and respectable love to the daughter (Rose Hobart) of a bigwig. Dr. Jekyll promises the music hall girl immunity from Mr. Hyde, then finds he can no longer regulate his horrid transformations. As Mr. Hyde, he goes to the trollop's rooms and kills her. Mr. Hyde has tried clubbing the father of Dr. Jekyll's fiancee and embracing the girl herself before the picture ends with a shot of a corpse in Dr. Jekyll's laboratory...
When Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale University told the American Association of University Professors about low professorial salaries three weeks ago (TIME, Dec. 7), he pictured Harvard University as a Horrid Example, where only 23% of the university's total income was paid out in salaries. Harvard has an able, personable young secretary for information, Robert Keen ("Bob") Lamb. A diligent informer. Secretary Lamb took pencil & paper and last week announced that Harvard last year paid nearly $5,000,000 for salaries and research work out of a total income of $13,000,000. Thus, Harvard's percentage...
...South Orange, N. J.. police answered a telephone call, heard a frightened woman's voice calling for help: "There's a horrid looking man with a long face peeping in my window!" Police hurried to the rescue, found the peeping Tom was one Garibaldi, a peddler's horse...