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...quality. This is especially noticeable in the field of fiction and there can hardly be said to have appeared one single novel of any great importance or significance since the first of the year. The period has produced a number of freaks and curiosities and also several books of lurid titles and erotic content such as "Naked on Roller Skates" and Mr. Hecht's "A Jew In Love." Needless to say the sales of these books have been in direct proportion to their sensationalism. An exception to this rule, however, seems to be the case with Edgar Lee Master...
...reading public, aware of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's reaction to lurid publicity, may easily have guessed what his mental processes were when he saw advertised in last week's newspapers: "HOW LINDBERGH SMASHED THE CONSTANCE MORROW DEATH PLOT! . . . revealed ... in every true detail [in] True Detective Mysteries...
...conception of New York five decades hence is elaborately executed and extremely well done. Moreover, it is plausible. An opening shot of Fifth Avenue in 1880 and then a brief view of the same street in our own time is quite enough to make the most prosy dullard form lurid conceptions of Fifth Avenue...
Next move of Satan is to create "from the most lurid infernal material" Francesco Saverio Nitti and make him Prime Minister of Italy. Under Nitti Bolshevism almost strangles Fascism, but God the Father in the nick of time sends Hero Garibaldi in a dream to Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. Counseled by Garibaldi, aided by Mussolini, d'Annunzio rushes to the rescue of the Roman Victory, severs her chains and leads her triumphant to Fiume...
...accept few patients. Dean Darrach is a cordial, friendly, well-liked person, bald, with a ruddy face and stocky frame. Last year at Columbia University's 175th anniversary, the university hung and oil painting of Dean Darrach. It shows him as he appears at Commencement exercises-in a lurid red gown and a dinky, black, lopsided hat which slopes to one side very rakishly...