Word: luridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When such lurid posters appeared in Moscow last week, throngs rushed to trade tchervontsy for tickets. All mobs love gore, but must very generally do with out it nowadays. Therefore, the wolf fight prospectus which was distributed in Moscow last week was pawed by eager humans, blood curious, licking their chops: The Co-operative Association of Moscow Hunters will present a magnificent spectacle in which 1,000 rabbits will be chased and torn to pieces by 200 hounds. . . . Eighty foxes and an equal number of dogs will fight...
Edward of Wales: "Mrs. Keld Fenwick (once lurid U. S. actress 'Peggy Marsh'),† the Jewish Belgian billionaire Capt. Alfred Lowenstein and myself hunted with a party last week in my favorite haunt, the Melton Mowbray district. Suddenly Captain Lowenstein's horse bolted, throwing him. Peggy Marsh and I spurred after the beast, which I captured. Captain Lowenstein got up uninjured. At present he is being sued by a French doorman whom he hit in the jaw (TIME, Nov. 8), and two French detectives are in Manhattan tracing $600,000 worth of gems of which his wife...
...climactic number, the Fourth Symphony by Brahms, is charged with an emotional power that makes it well-suited for the conclusion of a repertoire that is at the start descriptive and interpretative. The emotional fire of this composition in E minor never Mazes into a lurid display nor dies down to lukewarm embers, but always remains at a steady white heat. The musical skill and energetic orchstration that marks Brahms symphonic work is especially apparent in this Fourth composition...
...Queen Marie disconcerted Mayor Kendrick by demanding to be driven through the most lurid section of Philadelphia's tenderloin to the small Rumanian Church of the Descent of the Holy Ghost...
...Shelf. Febrile, mincing, exquisite Frances Starr portrays delightfully the lurid Mrs. Amaranth, come home to Kiwanisport, N. Y., from Europe and worse. Uneasy as a bird of plumage roosting in a barnyard, she is most uneasy of all lest she be considered "on the shelf." Through three acts of easily forgettable humor she defends the honor of her sex appeal. Donald Meek, once again a hilariously henpecked clergyman, spend-thriftily purchases eight kisses from Mrs. Amaranth at his own church bazaar. Thenceforward it is but a step until the glittering and ever competent Arthur Byron, this time a scheming Senator...