Word: horridness
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...Snook, cold, unmoved, said she had threatened to kill him, his wife, his young daughter, claimed he was emotionally insane, remembered nothing of his grisly deed. So vile was the testimony that no paper would publish it verbatim. Low-minded persons scavanged the official transcript, printed pamphlets omitting no horrid word, sold them on Columbus street corners. Last week a jury in 28 minutes convicted Snook of first degree murder, automatically carrying a death penalty...
Followed a whispered conversation between Capt. Urbina and his swarthy friends. They bowed to Capt. Morris, and slipped down the gangplank again. Almost immediately the Dutch calm of Willemstad was punctuated with shots, shouts and horrid outcry. Dark figures rushed along the waterfront to little Fort Amsterdam. Half an hour later Capt. Urbina, flushed, triumphant, returned to the S. S. Maracaibo with 400 followers and the disheveled Governor of Curaçao, His Excellency, Mr. L. A. Fruytier, captured in bed, and Willemstad's Chief of Police. Pressing an enormous pistol against Capt. Morris's abdomen, Rebel Urbina ordered...
...split-up, with rights. Hiram Walker is, of course, famed as whiskey-maker. U. S. interest in the split-up was keen in Missouri, whose Congressman Leonidas Dyer recently purchased Hiram Walker stock without knowing the nature of the product and sold, precipitately, at a loss, when the horrid truth became evident to him. Congressman Dyer talked of suing the Manhattan Curb to get back his lost money. Had he not been so hasty in disposing of his "tainted" certificates, he might have had a profit on his transaction...
...orange grove near Orlando, Fla., last month, a U. S. Department of Agriculture employe cut open an orange, prepared to sink his teeth into it, halted at a horrid sight?maggots! He fairly ran to a laboratory where, under a microscope, he made a terrible discovery: the grubs were larvae of Halterophora capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly), most vicious and destructive of dipterous pests, never before found in the U. S. Out went the alarm over Florida. Inspection showed that the infestation had spread through three counties ?Seminole, Orange and Lake American Legionaries volunteered as fruit inspectors...
...Buffalo, five policemen were needed last week to handle traffic on the roads near Pine Hill cemetery. Reason: ghastly-ghostly voices and music were issuing from a tomb. Amateur sleuths at length discovered that the horrid sounds, refracted by the marble mausoleum, were echoes from a radio loudspeaker in front of a distant shop...