Word: horridness
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...more glaring examples of stupidity in Boston book censorship. It is true that the words "Banned in Boston" on the jacket of a novel will boost its sales tremendously, but in most cases the Boston book censor is not worthy of this reputation for the detection of horrid words and passages. As an example of this the first part of "World Without End" appeared some years ago under the title of "As It Was." This fragment of one of the finest and tenderest love stories in recent years was suppressed soon after its appearance in the Boston bookstores. Now under...
...workman's challenge to down a pint of "bitter" almost proved the candidate's undoing. Champagne is, in fact, his drink. Shrewd, he sidestepped the challenge temporarily, practiced at home by gargling bitter beer until he could down the horrid stuff publicly without making a wry face. In Smethwick, his constituency, beer is almost an article of the workingman's faith...
...themselves. With the speed of bad news, the word flashed from the tower of the ugly, gilt-domed old Pulitzer Building to the press rooms in the basement. Startled clerks from the circulation office, grimy printers from below, made for the city room to confirm the horrid report. . . . Was this, after 48 years, to be the end of the great, crusading World? Were their jobs not, as they had confidently believed, held secure by the will of Old Joe, who had decreed that his papers must never be sold, must be carried on by his children and their children, Worlds...
...demands for formal action. One Californian wired to Senator Hiram Johnson urging "proper protest against . . . insult." Nothing happened. The Strange Death of President Harding was widely circulated and reported in the U. S. last spring. But the U. S. press, while feeling obliged to report the book's horrid insinuation that Mrs. Harding did away with her husband, at the same time took pains to set forth the unsavory record and reputation of Author Means, ex-convict. Not so the Vancouver Sun, which announced its feature with a sheet made up like the front page of an unspeakably yellow...
...four years ago in Manhattan's New Yorker. These two disreputable old harridans, whooping with unseemly mirth at rowdy subtleties, made Artist Arno's reputation. Says Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley, introducing this latest book of Arno drawings: "When they [the Whoops Sisters] bounded, with their muffs and horrid hats, from the pages of the New Yorker, 50 years of picturized joking in this country toppled over with a crash." Now Peter Arno is a New Yorker mainstay, Manhattan's caricaturist-of-the-hour; his unique but not inimitable style is beginning to be copied. Benchley, a serious...