Word: luridly
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...gobbles up about 10,000,000 comic books a month-an overseasoned, indigestible, nerve-shattering, eye-ruining diet of non-comic murder, torture, kidnappings, sex-baiting. Traceable to these hyperthyroid thrillers are many a midnight scream in the nursery, many a juvenile nervous tantrum. Some parents ban the lurid comic books; the more thoughtful try to substitute "good" books. Meanwhile the comic books go marching on-with a slight drop due to the loss of the export market...
...case came up in a New Jersey Circuit Court. It was because of Dr. Klein's treatments, Mrs. Stemmer claimed, that little Jacob is a pinheaded idiot who, at the age of 5½, weighs 22 lb., cannot even sit up. At the lurid trial, two medical experts and a psychologist testified that the X-ray treatments were responsible for the child's idiocy; nine other doctors claimed they were...
...Baroque organ of the Germanic Museum to a spirited accompaniment by Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta. The concerto itself is a delightful one, and the whole album as successful a combination of Biggs, Victor, and Handel, as has yet appeared....Anyone who is revolted, as I am, by Stokowski's lurid transcriptions and feverish performances of Bach may be glad to hear that there is still someone floating around who has the taste to transcribe early music and not emerge with something different from the original. Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D. C., has made...
...facts alone it was a criminal case designed to echo throughout the U. S. press, to excite passions, race prejudice, prurient interest. But the paper that printed most about the trial-but without getting lurid-was the Greenwich (Conn.) Time (circulation: 3,265), the Strubings' local paper. Of New York papers only the Daily News and PM gave it conventional tabloid prominence. All other New York papers including the tabloid Mirror and Hearst's Journal & American played it down with brief reports slurring the details. One, the World-Telegram, in most of its reports even avoided mentioning...
People also have tried to forget the characters, who mouthed their lurid lines in the worst school of European ham acting. There was Camilla Desmoulins (he longed to "embrace Liberty on a heap of dead bodies"); Louis Antoine de Saint-Just ("for Revolutionists there is no rest but in the tomb"); Danton ("I wanted the youth of Paris to arrive in Champagne covered with blood . . ."). People even managed to forget Jean Paul Marat '"When a man lacks everything ... he is justified in cutting another's throat and devouring the palpitating flesh"). But one man they never could forget...