Word: horridness
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...evening last week Apiarist Van de Poele went to Boston's Radio Station WEEI to talk about bees, took along a hive of 30,000 bees for sound effect. Nervous after his microphone ordeal, he struck the hive against a studio door, dropped it. Out with a horrid hum swarmed all 30,000 bees. While spectators and staff members fled, the beeman valiantly scooped his charges back into the studio with bare bands, slammed the door...
RODIN : IMMORTAL PEASANT-Anne Leslie-Prentice-Hall ($3). Lively biography of a lively subject, the lusty, redheaded, great French sculptor, whose eventual fame at 60 left undimmed the traits which prompted Robert Louis Stevenson's wife to call him "a horrid...
...Stalin gets results, and soon Moscow presses were saying that Yagoda never was his creature, that the Dictator never really liked him, long wanted to be rid of him. More and more lurid stories followed, with Comrade Yagoda swelling in horrid infamy until it appeared that Ogpu evenings under him resembled Roman Saturnalia. The picture of debauchery was made to look a trifle brighter by suggesting that the Ogpu Chief's most depraved carousing and seductions came toward the close of his public career when he realized that jail was but a few jumps ahead. Item: the State press...
...recommending the compulsory athletic fee the Council laid plank number two in the bridge that will lead Harvard over the deep and horrid chasm in whose gloomy depths so many other colleges lie groaning. President Conant's demand for an endowment fund started the bridge from one side and the Council has laid the foundations from the other--only by a strong intra-mural program, self-sufficing and self-supporting, can athletics be rigorously bent to meet the needs of every student and the chasm successfully avoided...
...story with which in days gone by it had roused San Franciscans: the mysterious Nob Hill haunted house scare (1888), the City Hall building fraud of 1891; the visit of Strong Man Eugene Sandow in 1894 when the blond Hercules separately moved each & every muscle of his body; the horrid "Belfry Murders"-two young women church workers, one chopped up, one strangled and stowed in a steeple (1895); the kidnapping and torture of aged Sugar Planter James Campbell...