Word: luridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swarthy and reckless Signer Mario Carli, a young favorite of Il Duce, laid about him outrageously again, last week, in the lurid pages of his arch-Fascist Roman news sheet, L'Impero. Last fortnight Editor Carli outraged smart Italian women who slenderize themselves and refuse to have children by telling them (TIME, Jan. 21) that "such sweet egotists, such darling morsels of vanity, should be soundly smacked on every possible occasion!" Last week, even this ungallant bravado was eclipsed when Smacker Carli took a sounding wallop at tourists...
Both Son Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. and Nephew Erskine Gwynne have now repented their original sin of writing for the lurid, gumchewerish Hearst Sunday Magazine. It was son Cornelius Jr.'s indiscretions in this blatant field which for years estranged his parents. Simultaneously Nephew Gwynne was writing from Paris a series which Hearst editors published as: "The Memoirs of Mrs. Jean Nash, by The Best Dressed and Most Extravagant Woman in the World...
...such macabre romancing is possible with influenza epidemics. They are extensive, exasperating to the medical profession, sometimes desolating. But even when their death toll is enormous they make no lurid history. Influenza is too subtle a disease to lend itself to ghastly poetics...
...Brazilian newspaper Folha da Noite launched last week a lurid attack against Henry Ford and his rubber plantation in the State of Para. Charged the Folha da Noite: "Mr. Ford does not give good wages. In Mr. Ford's stores a milreis [$.12] is worth only 400 reis...
...crossways, under doors and into small town letter boxes during the night. . . . "All the stuff is much the same . . . holds out the most amazing threats of devastation and disaster which will come to the nation if the Pope wins control of the Government . . .and contains the most vicious and lurid attacks on the Governor, assailing him in the vilest language...