Word: horridness
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...University of Southern California, high class prostitution at Hollywood, California's "Reds," labor college? anti-syndicalism "outrages" - structurally built to reproduce life .-.s Mr. Sinclair has seen it lived in Southern California, and mentally f oundationed - or undermined - to show Capitalism as the causa of all that is horrid in the Golden West, Communism as the hope of all that is hopable there by Author Sinclair and the woeful workers whose Moses he is. Like many bores, Mr. Sinclair is genial; like more, he has investi gated his subject. So the charac ters are appealing - J. Arnold Ross, onetime...
...such consistently anti-Red news organs as the Chicago Tribune printed a United Press story in which the horrid discovery was revealed that "one of the [Arcos, Ltd.] rooms was furnished with tables and chairs, leading to the belief that it was a secret soviet meeting-room...
...revisits Brittany, subdues its horrid Griffon, and, seeing "the still white fire of her necessity," learns to "lavish the comfort of kind lies" on the other Isolt, a child with grey eyes...
...Glasgow, smelled at the festers. They reminded him of sewage; and sewage reminded him of how the city of Carlisle was deodorizing its wastes-by carbolic acid. He slopped carbolic acid on the open wounds of accident cases brought to him. The acid worked; it prevented development of horrid "hospital gangrene." Joseph Lister had discovered antisepsis and thenceforth surgery became cleanly. Surgeons now wash their hands before operating; and they wear sterilized gloves, caps and aprons, and even tie gauze masks over their mouths to prevent foul breath contaminating the entrails of patients. Many surgeons realize the "why" of their...
...proclamation published on August 13, 1660, which condemns two of Milton's political pamphlets as containing 'treasonable passages" and "impious endeavors to justifle the horrid and unmatchable murther" of King Charles I, may also be seen...