Word: horridness
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...coroner reconstructed the horrid hour. An apoplectic stroke had felled Rancher Byram. As he lay unconscious, his hogs came...
...great apes. The vagabond sits in their midst, learning tricks that neither Burroughs nor his familiars of Brattle Street have ever dreamt of. And then, with an unrestrained and thoroughly natural chords of growls, the hairy beasts rush the demure observer, the Vagabond. He vanishes from their horrid grasp, to learn about them from a distance, when Professor Hooton, at ten in the Semitic Museum 1, delivers his lecture on "The Great Apes...
...Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey State Police disclosed that the Bryant-Harvey case-simple, stupid, but none the less horrid-was one of three extortion attempts made since small Jon's birth last August. One letter was a warning or threat to "watch out." Another asked $50,000 in $20 bills in a suitcase. The illiterate letters leading up to Bryant & Harvey's arrests began coming in December. Excerpt...
...confederates. He blackmailed Denver merchants into buying his Post coal. He was horsewhipped into a hospital by a Denver husband. He took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal. And the elaborate house in which "Bon" Bonfils died was the object of particularly horrid whispers-that Bonfils got it extremely cheap from a man who feared publicity...
...horrid hint of "blackjacked" advertising, Broker-Age snorted ridicule, replied that its admen have been expressly enjoined to base their claims strictly on circulation. Also Broker-Age insisted it does not seek to make a profit...