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...wrathy bishop thundered against the appointment of Bertrand Russell as a professor and department head at the College of the City of New York. Puffing out his decent cheeks in righteous indignation, the Right Reverend William Thomas Manning wheezed that the eminent Briton had a past. And a lurid list of exploits it is, one than should automatically disqualify him as an instructor of the pure and innocent American youth. For the Earl has been married three times, divorced on charges of adultery, and has specifically defended in his writings sexual relations "as a purely private matter which does...
...Jelly rose steadily to fame in his chosen profession, performing at places like Aunt Lucy's, Gypsy Schaeffer's and the Frenchman's. Waxing prosperous, he adorned his massive smile with a set of gold teeth, studded one of them with a diamond. In such lurid surroundings, Jelly and other locally celebrated colored musicians like King Oliver and Louis Armstrong were unconsciously shaping a folk music whose syncopated four-four time would later make the whole world dance and sing differently. In rediscovering and re-recording Jelly's simple and persuasive music, Charles Smith has done...
Skeleton on Horseback (Czech). This last picture made by the Czechs from one of the last plays of their late great playwright, Karel Capek (R. U. R.), is reported to have been smuggled out of Czechoslovakia shortly after the German invasion. It is a lurid appeal for pacifism. Dr. Galen (Hugo Haas) has discovered a secret cure for a leprous epidemic which is slowly killing off the human race. Dr. Galen lives in an unnamed dictatorship. When its dictator (Zdanek Stepanek) and his munitions manufacturer (Vaclav Vydra) contract the disease, Dr. Galen refuses to cure them unless they stop making...
What Captain Brown might have heard, reported in good faith, and perhaps expanded on later, was a snatch of a CBS broadcast that night by Newscaster Edwin C. Hill, a lurid, present-tense yarn of the long-past sinking of the Republic in 1909 - first major sea disaster in which radio was used as a distress signal: "Fog is all about . . . impenetrable murk . . . hysterical shriek . . . crash and grinding . . . frightening darkness . . . shouts and screams . . . women and children aboard ... C Q D ... C Q D*. ..." As Captain Brown recalled whatever he did hear, "they seemed terribly excited. . . . It made me sick...
...loss was a blow to Karl Michael, swimming mentor at Hanover, since the meet was Dartmouth's first under his tutelage. It is a reported that the Spaulding Pool locker-rooms were liberally sprinkled with signs reading, "Beat Harvard!" . . . . President Ernest Martin Hopkins was in attendance . . . Crimson divers told lurid tales about the low-hanging chandeliers above the board...