Word: horridness
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...Parade is thus a horrid but exciting reprobate's progression, replete with all the disasters that can befall a drunkard as he lurches toward the grave. It is brilliantly acted by a fine cast, coherently constructed and, unlike D. W. Griffith's miserable picture The Struggle, manufactured in the present tense. Good shot: a 'legger's plant in full operation, showing the printing presses for fake labels, the process of dousing whiskey bottles in brine to make them look as though they had come off a boat...
Thirty-six years before Judge began, George Wilkes and Enoch Camp established in Manhattan the National Police Gazette. Purpose: "To assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of felons' names, aliases and persons," offering "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions." Like Judge, the Police Gazette tried to live up to its founders' precepts, but languished with the rise of modern tabloid journalism. Insolvent for four months, it suspended publication last month. Last week Irving Trust Co. also...
...Jesus Christ, rising from the dead. Apparently illumined by strong light from above, the figure much resembles the heroic Transfiguration over the high altar. Dr. Norwood says he noticed it some time ago. But that is not all. He has also found a Buddha, another Christ, and a horrid Brute Man with slit-eyes, pointed ears and lightning coursing about his head...
...unto himself, doing what he thinks will make for his own individual happiness. What kind of country would we have if this were done?" So last week spoke a New York lady whom everyone knew to be as good as she is rich. She was flaying that horrid bogey, ATHEISM. If there was any apparent incongruity in her denunciation of a "law-unto-oneself." it was because she was Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard, favorite daughter of that prodigious, puny, black-bearded buccaneer, the late Jay Gould, who made a fortune, knew no law. But there was no incongruity...
...variations. Mr. Hyde pursues a music hall girl (Miriam Hopkins) and brutally mistreats her while Dr. Jekyll makes intermittent and respectable love to the daughter (Rose Hobart) of a bigwig. Dr. Jekyll promises the music hall girl immunity from Mr. Hyde, then finds he can no longer regulate his horrid transformations. As Mr. Hyde, he goes to the trollop's rooms and kills her. Mr. Hyde has tried clubbing the father of Dr. Jekyll's fiancee and embracing the girl herself before the picture ends with a shot of a corpse in Dr. Jekyll's laboratory...