Word: luridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Acres' discretion can be trusted. His book will be no lurid chronicle of philanderings with John Bull. Nevertheless the Council, which all but overreaches the Old Lady in Conservatism, has suspended judgment as to whether her biography is to be made public until it has been inspected and found blameless...
Developments in the Press were naturally lass capable of being accurately evaluated, but reflected a general tone of condemnation for Mr. Mellon and sympathy for M. Caillaux. The French temperament exploded into many lurid headlines and wild words, such as: "France, with a knife at her throat is being offered up to a God more detestable than the God of War!" But two questions were asked everywhere that summed up the tenor of thinking Frenchmen's worries: 1) How can France keep up her prestige in Europe for another five years, without knowing what her total obligations will eventually...
Last week Harper's celebrated its 76th Anniversary. It appeared in a new cover of orange and black -a cover as suavely lurid as a tiger rug. It abandoned s practice of reproducing, under its title-head, a portrait, by some substantial master-folowed instead the example of The Dial, The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review by printing there its table of contents. There was little to remind the twitching ear-tabbed centenarian of the cover familiar to his halcyon days - the two roco pedestals that framed a page made acceptable for mid-centry boudoirs with a trinity...
...Bisbee's Princess, the genuine article, brightly illumined the existence of that portly and proper small-town jeweler when he made her acquaintance on a train. Gossips beheld the illumination as the lurid glare of scandal. Bisbee's wife wailed and railed. Bisbee's business boomed. Long after, when the princess wrote for a pair of patent spectacles, Bisbee postured, privately but gallantly, with a paper cutter...
...SPRING FLIGHT-Lee J. Smits-Knopf ($2.50). When geese went north in the night, when lurid shafts of light played in a forbidden alley, when girls looked longingly at his curly, black hair, Kenneth Farr of the Middle West could not help feeling that there was more in life than his mother had told him about between family prayers. When he grew older and found he was right, he pitied himself for not having been told; posed alternately as "misunderstood" and "no good." As is usual in such cases, he wrote bad verse. He sought liberation on the stage...