Word: horridness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playwright Robertson's melodrama follows the prevailing modes of theatrical violence; at times the stench of the underworld pervades his scenes, although he achieves not quite such horrid insinuations as those conveyed by the derbied, white-faced gunmen in Ernest Hemingway's short story classic of lunch-counters and racketeering, "The Killers." But Robertson's comedy is far above par; in his own chatter and the comments of a crowd of rubberneckers gathered about the murdered detective, his idiom bears comparison with that of the great Ring W. Lardner. When the play is not vicious...
...Lexel adds that, horrid as the gargling in the dining room was, it at least served to mitigate the beastliness of being kissed by a lot of people whose mouths and beards smelled and tasted of dinner! But then Lexel never did like promiscuous embraces, and, as a very small boy, once flatly refused to kiss even the Emperor's hand...
American Tobacco. Production of Lucky Strikes in January showed an increase of 14½ times the total increase registered for all brands. Cremo (Spit is a horrid word) is being produced at the rate of 1,110,000 a day. When American Tobacco's George Washington Hill took over the active management of American Cigar Co. last May only 93,000 Cremos were being made...
Enthusiastic if undistinguished drawings caricatured Donor Harkness on the back stoop eagerly picking up the News and the morning milk to see how his program was being received; shadowy, demoniac, pedagogs were pictured pouring down a horrid sworl of dicta and mandates upon a helpless undergraduate; the Corporation (board of Trustees) was seen servilely waiting upon the Harkness pleasure...
...than they used to be. There's less chance for fighting, for getting dirty, for catching cold in the Bus than there was when children went by foot. But also, though the Bus driver is a man carefully chosen for steadiness and reliability, there is danger. Last week, horrid tragedy fell upon the School Bus at Berea, Ohio, 13 mi. from Cleveland...