Word: horridness
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...comes by the information which makes possible her revenge. Revenge is seldom sufficient for the plot of a cinema; the girl also loves the son of the man who caused her father's death and will, presumably, marry him. Five and Ten (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) relates the horrid circumstances which may mar the financial success of a 5? & 10? store tycoon. Happy in Kansas City the tycoon and his dependents fall on miserable days when they move to a magnificent home in Manhattan. The tycoon's wife allows herself to be cajoled by a mustachioed gigolo...
...fell, had to be bandaged up and put to bed. A Maharajah called to pay his respects. Because of Daisy's bandages they were mutually invisible, so the Ma- harajah kissed her toe through the blanket. In Egypt she was taken to see a stomach-dance; "it looked horrid." But mostly her travels were in well-marked royal grooves: visits to England, appearances in Berlin, vacations in Southern France, Switzerland...
Four months ago occurred the debacle to which the trial of Lord K. (except for its pomp and circumstance) was anticlimax. At that time the preferred shareholders of White Star Line, all of whose common stock was held by Royal Mail, discovered that their own company was in horrid condition and Royal Mail was worse off. Lord Kylsant, controller of 34 shipping companies and 2,770,000 tons of craft, was roundly vilified by the shareholders (TIME...
...expected the carriers would ask, besides rate upping for long hauls, for sharp cuts on short hauls where they compete directly with motor trucks. So desperate is the railroads' fight against bus & truck competition that fortnight ago before the I. C. C., Reading Co. made a horrid example of its own motorbus subsidiary as a beneficiary of undertaxation...
...hoped. "The Isis" goes into great detail as to the kind of drinkers that oxist at the University. There are those who drink only on Saturday night, and there are those who indulge only after long and arduous physical discipline. This last category the magazine admits quite frankly are "horrid...