Word: horridness
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...Palace Windows shortly before seven a.m.! We lived it with you, Mrs. Lightfoote. And you may be sure that the fruits and flowers now arriving daily at your bedside from all parts of Britain are but a small measure of our admiration. Yours is the spirit which routed that horrid old Armada. And -who knows?-the psychiatrists may soon have you on your feet again. Here's hoping!" "A little bird tells me that Katherine Hepburn, filming over here, walked alone in the Park one day last week-unnoticed! The explanation is simple. It had been rumoured that...
Consider the lamp-post, gentlemen. Is it the brave, fearless last representative of a style of architecture that once was, standing in front of that horrid edifice, beaming its disrespect at it like a staunch puppydog eyeing a newfangled fire-hydrant? No, it is not. It is a ruse, a front, a deception placed there by the administration to lead us away from the realization of the thunderous truth: that modern architecture, the creeping cancer of our industrial technology, has in fact captured a corner of the Harvard Yard, the nucleus of New World intellect, world shrine of ivied Victorian...
...nodded toward the heavy eyebrows and invited John L. Lewis to say a few words. John L. rose, surveyed the businessmen surrounding him, and talked for 30 minutes without pause. When he sat down, his audience gave him the heaviest applause of the afternoon. Reason: without ever mentioning the horrid word "tariff," Lewis had managed to roll together all the old demagogic arguments against free trade and give them a fine, patriotic ring...
...women can't write, and don't want to read." He ordered his editor to fire the staff and start over again, remaking the Mirror as Britain's first popular picture daily. Getting rid of the women, said one of Northcliffe's editors, "was a horrid experience-like drowning kittens. They begged to be allowed to stay. They left little presents on my desk, waylaid me tearfully in the corridors." But the change worked. By 1914, when Northcliffe took vigorous personal control of the London Times (TIME, May 19, 1952) and sold the Mirror...
Drawing of Lots. On the 73rd day, recorded Captain Pollard later: "We looked" at each other with horrid thoughts in our minds . . . We loved one another as brothers . . . yet our looks told plainly what must be done." That was to draw lots to decide who would be shot for food...