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Last year Belle Livingstone, no longer young but still a shrewd businesswoman, conducted a "salon of culture, wit and bonhommie" on Manhattan's Park Avenue - a lurid house of night where people sat on cushions on the floor and drank until daylight. Federal officers raided it, arrested the proprietress and three bartenders. Visitors to her Mecca of Merriment last week saw Miss Livingstone in a black dress dotted with symbolic sunflowers, saw also a large house, three of whose floors are occupied respectively by dancehall and stage, salon and bar, ping-pong and Tom Thumb golf rooms. Specially designed...
...told by Edward Van Every in his book Sins of New York-As "Exposed" by The Police Gazette (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) which appeared last fortnight. Few-even of those who remember the Gazette in every barber shop as the indispensable reference work on sports-were aware that the lurid sheet began in the role of vice-crusader. George Wilkes and Enoch Camp established it in Manhattan in 1845 "to assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of [felons'] names, aliases and persons. . . ." The exposures started with policy gambling (now a thriving operation...
...could not order Fords and Chevrolets sold at $100 apiece. But Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin can do things remarkably like that. To understand this, to gauge the potential power of Red statesmen to work mischief in world markets, was more vital last week than to be scared by lurid rumors of Red grain dumping in Liverpool and Amsterdam, Red speculating for the decline in Chicago's wheat...
...could chill the blood of Budapest's bourgeoisie as quickly. Eleven years have passed since the pale violet-scented clerk Albert Cohen, Bela Kun in Hungarian, ruled Budapest for 133 bloody days, but nursemaids still frighten children with lurid tales of gutters red with blood, nuns and countesses falling before his firing squads, rich landowners tortured to death. Since his downfall in 1919 Bela Kun has held a minor office in Moscow's Foreign Propaganda bureau. He has appeared, plump, ugly flashily dressed, smelling of wood violet, in Portugal and Vienna only to be hustled...
...Salisbury Plain to the attack beyond Ypres in 1917 when a shell left him with only one more leg to give his King & Country. "Then his heart instead of finishing its beat and pausing to beat again swelled out its beat into an ear-bursting agony and great lurid light that leapt out of his broken-apart body with a spinning shriek and the earth was in his eyes and up his nostrils and going away smaller and smaller into blackness and tiny far away...