Word: horridness
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...press scares Russians was added, last week,* a potent U. S. citizen 89 years of age, gaunt, and frail with parchment skin and eyes that seem always sunken behind dark-lensed spectacles. A searing editorial in Besbozhnik (The Godless), famed anti-religious organ of the Soviet State, revealed, as horrid fact, that 65.000 "Baptist Bibles" have recently been printed in Russia. Since someone must have paid for them, and since John Davison Rockefeller Sr. is rich, philanthropic and Baptist, Editor Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison Rockefeller Jr., as the actual...
...telephonic caller who immediately replied, "Very well-I will hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny, novel and grisly to provoke the intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles...
There are six acts of vaudeville on the bill this week at the B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre. One of them is very very good, and the rest are horrid. Only we really don't mean that. Out of the five horrid ones there are two that are pretty fair. One is the Misses Kouns who sing songs of old in a very sweet way, and the other is a dance act by Fowler and Tamara. These latter do all manner of things with the castanets and some dancing besides. We could say a few things about the other acts...
Around to the other side of the world, in Sumatra, 29 men and women affected with leprosy attacked their guards last week with claws and teeth and horrid touch. The guards drew their pistols and killed ten of the lepers, wounded four others. The others ran back to their pens, gibbering and screaming...
...ghastly corpse sprawls on the floor, a curious dagger still quivering in its side. The wall-safe gapes open−gone the twin heirloom emeralds, gone the royal Russian ruby. A slip of a girl cowers by the curtain, hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their...