Word: horridness
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...corner of his mind and drawing board, Cartoonist Capp is toying with an anti-shmoo. The horrid animal "might very possibly" come from Lower Slobbovia to exterminate the shmoo, and "might very possibly" be called the "nogudnik." But as long as The Life & Times of the Shmoo is a bestseller, the nogudnik will doubtless stay put under the Lower Slobbovia snow...
...removing three baseballs and ancient Denny Galehouse from the vicinity of Fenway Park yesterday afternoon, Lou Boudroau and Kenny Keltner spared Boston the aesthetically unpleasant experience of a city series. We say aesthetically unpleasant because the horrid fact of the matter is that the majority of Boston rooters are Red Sex partisans, and a city series would have found Billy Southworth's gallant crew in the position of villain in the piece...
...Horrid-Looking Wretch." No two campaigns have ever been exactly alike. They have been fought on such varied issues as Van Buren's high living ("Van, Van is a used-up man"), Al Smith's Catholicism, and Buchanan's bachelorhood ("Who ever heard in all his life, of a candidate without a wife?"). They have been won by a McKinley, sitting quietly on the front porch of his Canton, Ohio home; and lost by a Bryan, carrying his crusade 18,000 miles through 29 states. They have caused the death of at least one candidate: famed Editor...
They have descended to vicious mudslinging. Abraham Lincoln was once described as "a horrid-looking wretch . . . sooty and scoundrelly in aspect, a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse swapper and the night man." Andrew Jackson's mother was accused of being "a common prostitute, brought to this country by British soldiers...
...Emily Post, doyenne of etiquette, spoke of prunes: "The proper removal of pits [from the mouth] always depends upon their being made as dry and as clean as possible with your tongue. It is horrid to see anyone spit skins or pits into a spoon unless they are really bare and the lips compressed...