Word: lurid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...four o'clock this afternoon the CRIMSON news gatherers will cross bats with Lampy's lurid lyric artists in their one hundred and fifty-second annual baseball orgy. At a late hour last night it was reported that the Lampoon athletes were in a well-preserved condition; but there seems no doubt that the Plympton street pen pushers will have little difficulty in disposing of the punsters...
...fact that the club members stage, manage and act the plays without compensation. As examples of the modern drama, written and produced by students of it, they are much better dramatic investments than the conventional two-dollar play, of the modern box-office school. If they had lurid play bills to herald their coming; and a record of 300 nights on Broadway behind them, the theatre sheep would flock to see them and pronounce them capital...
...issue. There is also what seems to me a typical utterance of the stand-patter,--a graceful statement of well worn and out worn Republican platitudes by ex-Governor Long. There is also, just why one does not know, in this otherwise admirably serious and pertinent number a lurid word collection from the pen of Mr. Thomas W. Lawson, chiefly sound and fury signifying nothing. Ferhaps the article is offered as material for instructors in English A, who may utilize it to show those who would write English how not to do it. The two concluding numbers of the issue...
...best ten-cent magazines proves helpful toward securing publication. Local color, uncouth dialect, primal passion, heroic resignation, a moral struggle, and a savage fight march in perfect order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor's clever "Page from Gorky" seems pale and ineffective. After the reader has shuddered at "the great black raven" flapping slowly across the sky in Mr. Schenck's closing paragraph, he should take W. C. G. 's mild moralizing upon...
...fiction is a little lurid, but moral. To call it bookish is little more than to call it contemporary. H. Hagedorn, Jr., draws indeed from the night-life of Harvard: but one soon scents the moral thesis--a 'horrible example' to the text of the admirable sermon of the editorial: and soon recognizes Pengrove and Farrell for what they must have been to the author's own mind--less prodigals than premisses...