Word: horridness
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...Manhattan, socialites hung themselves with lamb chops, mushrooms, alarm clocks, lobsters, hot water bottles and sausages and gathered in a swank night club to dance. They were dressed as their own dreams to do honor to Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali who paints realistic pictures of horrid fantasies and was about to sail for Europe after a Manhattan exhibition (TIME, Nov. 26). On the stairway stood a bathtub clotted with mud, oysters and, later, cigaret butts. Dali's handsome wife wore a dress of transparent red paper, a headpiece decorated with lobsters and a doll's head, representing necrophilia...
...week given over to a one-man show of the later drawings of James Grover Thurber. Gallerygoers, stepping sideways like crabs, passed from frame to frame in which were exposed the backs of old letterheads and odd sheets of scratch paper on which were scrawled the amiable bloodhounds, the horrid boneless women, the bald, browbeaten little men of Artist Thurber, associate editor and one of the two most successful members" of the staff of The New Yorker...
...were blasphemous: The Thurber Madonna and The Three Wise Men (three goggle-eyed oldsters smirking behind their hands at something that might be the Virgin). The third was The Gates of Life. Glum pedestrians hustled by in the background; sprawled on the grass in the foreground was a horrid little girl hoisting her skirts before a legless War veteran, with tears rolling down his cheeks...
...country which has recently lost its frontier to be excited and stimulated by tales of danger and thrilling adventure. But it is certainly all wrong for such a spirit to be fanned up artificially by the engines of a sensational Press, by the enterprising photographers who record all the horrid details of crime. . . ." Ferdinand Pecora, like most militant prosecutors, wanted to cut constitutional corners, put crooks expeditiously in jail by denying them immunity from selfincrimination, by convicting them on majority jury verdicts...
Babes in Toyland (Hal Roach). With the notable exception of Walt Disney cartoons, fantasy is not a form of entertainment in which the cinema excels. Particularly in fantasy for children, there usually prevails a certain horrid condescension on the part of producers who, unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their own, prefer to adapt classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material...