Word: luridly
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...iron Nazi secrecy clamped down, the Sosnowski case became a lurid legend, strictly censored in the German Press, totally baffling to correspondents until they were able to tell the U. S. Embassy that languishing in jail and possibly about to be beheaded for "treason" was an inoffensive young U. S. music student, Miss Isobel Lillian Steele. Diplomatic pressure forced Germany to disgorge Miss Steele (TIME, Jan. 7), even the secret police finally admitting that she was guilty of nothing. But the music student had been innocently acquainted with Baroness von Berg, proceeded to spill all sorts of Sosnowski facts...
...bribe receipt was found, nothing was done except to discipline a certain Major Tanaka, apparently because he blabbed the secret to members of the Young Officers League. These naive hotheads, not realizing that they were playing into the peace-minded politicians' hands, dished up the scandal in a lurid pamphlet which declares photostats of the compromising document were made by a sergeant major of the reserve. Reputedly Army secret agents caught up with this sergeant last week, persuaded him to burn his photostats...
...started proceedings to collect the money which Manager Whitehouse had been ordered to stop paying. That day it was announced that Strauss & Co. had failed with losses estimated at ?1,000,000. A receiver was hastily appointed to take charge of one of England's biggest bankruptcies since lurid Promoter Clarence Charles Hatry went up in a puff of scandalous smoke five years ago (TIME...
...leering Tokyo scanned with rare delight last week a juicy story about French missionaries. Seemingly with full Government approval, closely censored news-organs shrieked details so lurid as to be ludicrous. Lecherous French missionaries, it appeared, have been seducing Japanese girls. The jealousy of two such wenches with respect to their priest caused one of them to unmask him to the police. An entire priestly gang has been making "minute topographic surveys of the Japanese coast with tiny cameras," hiding the films in French missionary churches. To protect themselves against the just wrath of the local Japanese populace, certain French...
...students at tables. Diligently they pore over their books, sitting stiffly upright, apparently prevented from relaxation by an overweening lust for knowledge. Like St. Simeon Stylites on his pillar, they have abandoned the comforts of this world in devotion to their ideal. Into this romantic dungeon the clangor and lurid brightness of external civilization do not penetrate...