Word: horridness
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...fragmentary conversation. The young man succeeds in transferring these lips to a statue of a young woman, who advises him to walk through a mirror. Having done so, the young man finds himself in the Hotel des Folies Dramatiques where, peeking through keyholes, he witnesses a horrid scene between an old lady and a child whom she is teaching to fly. When he emerges from the mirror, the young man finds himself transformed into a statue above a courtyard where children are fighting with snowballs. Snowballs eventually smash the young man in his statuary form. Dressed in evening clothes...
...rings, a pair of earrings, some white jade, a white fox coat, and an ermine coat. The Chinese had a very proper idea of gifts!" And a bit of really ancient history: ". . . Instead of saying nothing and letting Nick go to the dinner, I told him the horrid news of the seating, whereat he promptly said he would not go, that he was very glad to get out of the despised dry dinner, using as an excuse 'the slight' to the foreign ladies. The next day he had a large lunch party in the Speaker's dining...
...unprincipled villain named Sevilla (Stiano Braggiotti) is about to lure away to Paris Betty Findon (Daphne Warren Wilson), an impressionable young woman who does not know the horrid fate which awaits her in South America. Her childhood sweetheart, Colin Derwent (Bramwell Fletcher, a capable young Englishman returned to Broadway from Hollywood), can save her only by murdering Sevilla. A barrister, young Derwent has to use all the tricks his quick mind can provide to save himself from the gallows...
...theory that students are constitutionally incapable of absorbing facts from books, and that a Professor must therefore deliver two or three lectures a week in the effort to bolster up whatever opinions he may have with a body of elementary fact. For evidence that the result is horrid, one need only look to such courses as Government 1, History 11, English 28. One might continue; but a typical list would fill a column. Compelled by regulation, and by a false notion of undergraduate capacity, the speaker fills up his thirty of forty lectures a year with text book material...
...this had a horrid sound, but Wall Street was disposed to be tolerant. The pyramided set-up was no secret; the public which had bought the preferred had had a chance to cash in on their bonus of common at prices that they probably never dreamed they would get. U. S. & Foreign had paid $11,000,000 in dividends on the publicly-owned preferred and was still paying. U. S. & International paid preferred dividends until this year but there was no reason to believe that eventually they would not be resumed...