Word: luridness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Western professor arises to point out that it is unnecessary to become alarmed over the excessive intellectualism of our college students. The Chicago incident has left a large and lurid trail across the newspapers, but speaking roughly (as they so often seem to-do out there) almost anything is possible in Chicago. The professor is much more concerned over that vast and impassive army which fills the colleges everywhere, but which appears so stolidly to resist any impression on the intellect at all; and in his remarks one catches a sudden sense of the dismay with which the teaching profession...
COBRA?Somewhat lurid but vitally done play of sex in the home, which many men may consider a bit personal...
...Gina Ashley, the wavering hero-one, Ann Mason carries on with a part that it unsuited to her gentle and kindly temperament. In one very lurid scene she goes completely to the bad--lights real cigarettes, drinks from an empty champagne bottle, and comes out with one awfully naughty exclamation which we almost blushed at. But somehow we knew all the time that she was just the same gentle Miss Mason who was "in love with love" last week, and that she doesn't usually say such things...
There is also an upheaval of lurid language which tends to confirm the belief that men are men in the Northwest and do not mince words even in talking about...
...historical fact, in the story of Bluebeard and the study of the cult of Satanism and the Black Mass, the book is bloodcurdling, grotesquely horrible, reminiscent of William Blake. But then, one does not expect an Elsie Dinsmore story inside of a blood-red cover spouting pitchforks and lurid tongues of flame. The startled Manhattan censors recently frowned upon...