Word: horridness
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Smuggled out of Tralee, General O'Duffy told sympathizers in Killarney. "I was hit on the head five times with hammers." In Dublin meanwhile overzealous de Valera sympathizers appeared on the streets with horrid weapons: shillalahs studded with nails. Pitching into two Blue Shirts who were going to a dance at the Mansion House of Dublin's Lord Mayor, they whanged them without mercy, injured one Blue Shirt so severely that a surgeon had to take ten stitches to close the nail wounds in his head...
Under suspicion of having connived with the British, General Mulcahy screamed for a thorough investigation of the horrid charge. The talemonger who had given President de Valera his "information" backed down...
...this sculptor called Ed, Is he living or dead? Or did somebody garble a line? GODFREY HOPKINS New York City A child of error and perversity, Ed Stein was a non-existent character who appeared on Earth just long enough to make TIME, Sept. 11. p. 57, a horrid sight and, but for the intervention of the Blue Eagle, to cost several proofreaders and makeup editors their jobs. The Stein whose place he usurped in the limerick is, of course, Sculptor Jacob ("Ep") Epstein, creator of primordial monuments in London. - ED. Dodges to Syndicate to Chrysler Sirs: In your issue...
...Lithuanian flyers Stephan Darius and Stanley Girenas, who flashed across public consciousness so briefly that few people could repeat their names, were nearly forgotten last week when a horrid rumor grew about their crash at Soldin, Germany, near the Polish border. Every one had accepted the theory that their fuel supply had run out while they were trying to complete their flight from New York to Kovno, Lithuania. But a Lithuanian newspaper hinted that the airplane Lithuanica had been downed by a "death ray" aimed from German soil...
Year-and-a-half ago the famed old Police Gazette, pink-covered journal of sports news and chorus girls' pictures, fell victim to the Depression. In its 88 years it had passed through a variety of incarnations, beginning as "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions. . . ." It "crusaded against vice" with marvelous and explicit gusto. Under the administration of the late Richard Kyle Fox, who bought the Gazette in 1876, it gained fame as an arbiter and promoter of sporting events, and was such a fixture in barber shops...