Word: horridness
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...Those Horrid Books...
...Horrid Geography...
...horror! The noise had come from beneath him! In a paroxysm of fear Vag leaped upon the table. He had forgotten that these sounds were merely that old Harvard tradition, the Boylston Antique Chair Chorus, in which the chairs, aged to the resonance of violins, joined in horrid synphony. Alas, now he was beyond help and beyond reason. The noises were now growing to a terrible crescendo, now receding, beating about his throbbing temples, laughing, cackling, snarling, howling, roaring! They were after him! They were getting nearer! He stared about him with the terror of a cornered animal. Then...
Last week, many a professional athlete and club owner had another war on his mind. The draft act put a horrid fear into the minds of sports promoters: that the draft would rob them of their bread winners. Recently loud Larry MacPhail, a World War I veteran who tried to kidnap the Kaiser after the Armistice, made a plea for his Brooklyn Dodgers, asked that ballplayers caught in the draft be deferred until the season's end. Otherwise, said he, they would lose two seasons' play -and pay. It has cost a fortune to build the team...
Your story in TIME, Jan. 27, about Professor Lloyd James's loss of reason and its horrid result [wife-murder] recalled the several kindly letters which I have received from this tsar of English speech...