Word: horridness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of the packs have historical significance. In one very valuable set issued in 1680 the identification characters at the top are all but crowded out by wood cut illustrations of the suppression of the "horrid.. popish plot" of 1679. One of the pictures shows the hanging of five Jesuit priests and another a public book burning. Another set, made at Brianville in 1667, carries the hand made coat of arms of a noble French family...
...another four hours was the wreck found. Searchers, starting at the Jones farm, found themselves up against as horrid a spot for a crack-up as can be imagined. The woods into which The Southerner had flopped is dense, cut-over timber, growing out of a dank, quaking bog. In some places the gumbo of muck is four feet deep. Natives call it ''Loblolly," wear hip-boots on the rare occasions they enter...
...Horrid-sounding headlines were produced with two accusations: 1) officers and directors personally profited in the purchase of a big subsidiary; 2) in nine years the company paid $11,000,000 in dividends on an original investment of $3,000,000. But revelation-of-the-week was that Long Island's General Counsel Arthur J. (for nothing) Baldwin was a prolific rhymester...
...opera's prolog Lulu is represented by a fearsome wriggling snake, an eternal destroyer, according to Composer Berg who makes her just as horrid in every scene which follows. She destroys one man after another, commits a murder which lands her in prison, weasels her freedom only to philander in Paris with gamblers, procurers, swindlers. End comes in a sordid London attic where Lulu is brutally murdered by Jack the Ripper. Berg's orchestra then sounds out a shuddering scream. The New York Philharmonic took the cue faithfully, startled half its subscribers who still had to hear Soprano...
...horrid imperfection...