Word: horridness
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...takes you on a tour through croaking old windmills and murky side streets, pointing out the sights until your eyes bulge out of their sockets, and enjoying his own depravity intensely. For Mr. Hitchcock is a sadist, and "Foreign Correspondent" is a rhapsody in sadism, an apotheosis of the Horrid...
...shower bath. Two months ago Alhambra's high-school girls moved into a new building, where they had to undress and shower in a big common shower room. This seemed all right to most of them. But not to tall, moon-faced Joan Aveline Lawrence, 16. After one horrid ordeal, Joan refused to shower again in public even if they flunked...
...outburst as reflecting official American views. But the ambassador's pipe contains only ashes. "How easy," he cries, "it is for unthinking people to proclaim that what happens in Europe is no concern of theirs. . . . How easy to shut one's eyes and thus seek to avoid the horrid sight of the bloody and seething world revolution which threatens to overwhelm...
...shutting his eyes to the horrid sight of Europe at war. The great majority of Americans merely feel that the United States can best serve the cause of democracy by maintaining it here. They do not wish to add to Europe's blood-bath by our participation in it. Accordingly, they deplore the crusading blasts of James H. R. Cromwell as the type of emotionalism which leads straight to the front-line trenches...
...zeemply adore Harvard men," Miss Paris told reporters yesterday. "I am glad to get away from those horrid Yale persons...