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...dried seemed the probable result last week that Britons who hoped for a Labor victory were forced to paint a lurid picture: they saw the vast grey host of the unemployed, the discontented and Depression-ridden rising in a tidal wave of dumb resentment, sweeping "Uncle Arthur" Henderson on to glorious Victory and distasteful Bolshevism...
...people's investment in railroads, more than any other classification except real estate. In times past, panics have been caused by overenthusiasm for the carriers and their stocks, but now as in 1921 no such reason for Depression exists. Rail stocks have long since passed their lurid youth...
...story he ever wrote was one he concocted while on the Standard staff. A spectacular railroad wreck had, so to speak, fallen in Stone's lap. The only newsman in miles, he strung thousands of words together while the blazing cars of the unlucky train made the night lurid in Hellgate canyon near Missoula. He filed the yarn on the wire. Discovered next day that the Standard office had burned to the ground...
...York World-Telegram and other United Press subscribers embellished Father Faithfull's sad story with facsimiles of erotic pages from Starr's memory book, letters, telegrams. Star writers were put on the lurid story to treat it as an epic of injured innocence, a cause celebre of the decade. Fresh interest, fresh front-page stories (again including the Times) were supplied by the arrival from England of a Cunard Line doctor who revealed that Heroine Faithfull had come to see him on shipboard just before she disappeared from home, that he had sent her away because she was drunk, that...
Authoress Claire Goll has made a sordid story a little too true to be sordid. Enterprising Publisher Knopf has indicated the dual nature of the book, beckons two different publics by putting out The Jewel in two different jackets: one lurid, one chaste...