Word: horridness
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...Gorilla, by Ralph Spence, depends chiefly on the scenery. Trapdoors revolve and clatter, arms protrude from solid stone, panels slide and lights go black and green. While their surroundings are thus behaving queerly, the company unfolds a tale of horrid humors. It seems that the Gorilla was a monstrous criminal who advertised his criming and then fulfilled his promises. Murders and whatnot were his pastime. On this particular evening, he operates in the livingroom, the garage and the cellar of the Stevens mansion. A detailed report of the activity would sound very much like a 9-year-old child...
...Coop, the print goes under the number E 156. The original painting, which is by Manet, now hangs in the Luxembourg, and is entitled "Olympia." The subject is a nude, couchant, and differs from the Lampoon representation in that it is minus the wine-glass and the horrid leer with which the humorous artist embellished...
...suffering from the disease. If, on the other hand, you are one of the sophisticates who shrug a shoulder at such things, you will probably find the play as effective a satire as "Main Street" or 'Beggar on Horseback." The only flaw in our enjoyment as such, was our horrid suspicion that Mr. Frank Craven wrote the play more for the enjoyment of the large crowd that so obviously did enjoy it, than for any purpose of poking fun at the way we moderns live our lives...
There was a tomblike silence in the room. Premier Theunis of Belgium poised his pen above a paper which lay before him. His right hand descended swiftly, there was a dexterous movement, a horrid, scratchy sound, a faint bump and a signature had been penned. A score of suspended breaths were released and the paper passed on to the representatives of France, Italy, Japan, with the same ceremony. Then the paper was passed along to U. S. Ambassador Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State-designate, at present accredited to the Court of St. James's in London. Mr. Kellogg...
...well that some clear-sighted patriot has again taken the lead in this matter. Notwithstanding the horrid hideousness of Commissioner Hirshfield's campaign, Professor Muzzey and his unspeakable colleagues have continued to enjoy the respect and esteem of the country at large, which is apparently unaware of the Bolshevist leaven working in its vitals. If Mr. O'Brien had not raised the banner and declared a holy war of purification, anything might have happened...