Word: luridly
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Blast furnaces are lurid enough to make striking symbols, and to many churchmen they have long been symbolic of evil. Few churchmen have ever been able to think of a blast furnace without considering how uncomfortable it would be to work near one and what long days the grimy, bemuscled thousands of the steel industry spend at their laborious, heated calling...
...This lurid hypothesis was dismissed by District Attorney McGeehan of The Bronx with the remark: "I see no purpose to be served in summoning Terranova." Mr. Terranova himself, interviewed in his Spanish mansion, extensively decorated with stuffed birds, in Pelham Manor, N. Y., denied that he was at the dinner, stated that there is nothing unusual about his limousine...
...Connie," insisted woebegone, calico-clad Tiller Ruminer, on whose testimony the four-Herman Greenway, Joe White, Hubert Hester, Bill Younger-were indicted. She repeated her lurid story of a night last March when, as she and Franklin set out to be married, they were attacked by the defendants. She testified: "Connie yelled out 'Till, Till, they're akillin' me!' Then Joe White slammed a big rock on his haid. I couldn't help him none because Greenway was adraggin' me into the bushes. Then Hester came and helped Greenway do what he was doin...
...Significance. Nearly every action of Carry Nation's career provoked in the public mind a lurid distortion of the saloon of her times. She was one of Prohibition's prime instigators. Author Asbury has done her the justice of weighty, lively, analysis...
...faced a judge and jury in circuit court at Centerville, Tenn., last week. He was glad when 100 National Guardsmen arrived to cow a vengeful mob that threatened to lynch him. Complainant against him was Mrs. Zora Johnson Lynn, 55, weak-minded widow. Her account of the attack was lurid. Her two granddaughters, posing as eyewitnesses, embellished the tale by telling how Wright had flourished pistols, one in each hand...