Word: luridly
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...Queen Marie disconcerted Mayor Kendrick by demanding to be driven through the most lurid section of Philadelphia's tenderloin to the small Rumanian Church of the Descent of the Holy Ghost...
...Union of Socialist Soviet Republics). Previously President William Francis of the Chicago Y.M.C.A.-no Communist-had demanded the resignation of Mr. Eddy from the Y.M.C.A. At Moscow, fearless Sherwood Eddy had debated the existence of God before a great gathering of Atheists. A Chicago Tribune correspondent, shocked, cabled lurid rumors of Mr. Eddy's Communist leanings. Last week Sherwood Eddy refuted this heresy, declared: "I am a Capitalist...
...Shelf. Febrile, mincing, exquisite Frances Starr portrays delightfully the lurid Mrs. Amaranth, come home to Kiwanisport, N. Y., from Europe and worse. Uneasy as a bird of plumage roosting in a barnyard, she is most uneasy of all lest she be considered "on the shelf." Through three acts of easily forgettable humor she defends the honor of her sex appeal. Donald Meek, once again a hilariously henpecked clergyman, spend-thriftily purchases eight kisses from Mrs. Amaranth at his own church bazaar. Thenceforward it is but a step until the glittering and ever competent Arthur Byron, this time a scheming Senator...
...London Daily Express carried a lurid "scoop" last week purporting to describe how a group of mutinous artillery officers held up His Majesty's car at Del Leon and forced him to promise to support their cause. Arrived at Madrid, Alfonso was declared to have repeated his conversation with the mutineers to Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera, who allegedly remarked: "If your Majesty yields to the officers, I will proclaim a republic with myself as President...
Hollywood Insurrection. Agents of the U. S. Department of Justice, puttering dutifully about lurid Hollywood, Calif., discovered recently an armored truck in the garage of one Herbert Sandburn. Questioned, Mr. Sandburn volubly explained that a Mexican, Senor Benjamin Roqe, had commissioned him to equip four heavy trucks with armor plate-each truck to mount two one-pound cannon and four machine guns. Only one truck had been completed. Dissimulating their suspicions, assuring Mr. Sandburn that they believed him when he said the trucks were to be used for pay roll transport, the agents of the Department of Justice began...