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...Come into this death house with me," began Mr. Grey. Lurid details followed. Among them: "Elliott, the official killer, stood to the right of him with a fiendish grin on his face. ... He leaped, literally leaped, to the switchboard. . . . The switch went in. ... Sacco's hands . . . doubled into a knot. The veins in his long, thin, white hands began to rise and kept on rising until I thought they would burst and drench all of us with blood. . . . Sacco's neck was swelling to a huge inhuman size. . . . The saliva was literally pouring out of his mouth. . . . Try to compare...
...World War broke them up, the Hudson Dusters were a well-knit gang of gunmen and thieves who infested the west front of Manhattan, near Tenth Avenue. Such devilry was constantly sizzling and boiling up here, that the neighborhood became known as "Hell's Kitchen." In this lurid milieu, Playwrights John McGowan and Lloyd Griscom elected to set their play, although, as subsequently developed, they might as logically have fixed upon the Bronx...
...unreels the story of an Ohio boy whose domineering mother married him off young and innocent to a pallid missionary, a virgin before the Lord, called Naomi. In an Africa which Mr. Bromfield must have studied up on lurid picture postcards, Philip Downes revolts against his calling and celibacy. Attacked by bloodthirsty blackamoors, he narrowly escapes with life and wife back to Ohio, where he enters a steel mill and espouses his fellow-workers' cause. Just before they go on a losing strike, he slips off unexpectedly into a career of painting...
...publicity and utterly impervious to the ethical standards one has the right to expect of a man presiding in a capital case." Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller studied the Sacco-Vanzetti petition, said his mind was not made up on what procedure to follow. He received from Chicago a lurid deaththreat. It read: "Hon. Alvin: "If you will execute Sacco and Vanzetti, we are going to murder you, all of your family and turn your home into ashes; the same we do with your judge and Chief Justice as they got our note last week. "Our airplanes had a wonderfull success...
...State Frank B. Kellogg again made clear at Washington last week, that the Coolidge administration is determined to avoid intervention in China. At Shanghai, British resentment prompted an article entitled "Washington Deserts Her Allies," in the North China Daily News, chief British news organ in China. Most injudiciously, the lurid caption of this article was displayed in the streets on placards. Chinese read, shuffled...