Word: luridness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus Lee Clavering, brilliant young columnist, finds himself in the irritating predicament of being devoted to a woman with a lurid past and over half a century of it. They decide to wipe out the past conclusively, and Mary Zattiany feels herself on the brink of recommencing life, experiencing the unaccustomed emotions of young love. But the past will not be killed, and at last Mary realizes that the time for love has gone and that her work in the world is to use in the political salons of Europe the weapon of her old mind sheathed in a young...
...Dead in Smyrna Put at 250,000" was the newspaper announcement based on the cabled report of Mark O. Prentiss of the American Near East Relief. Yet the people of this country have not been particularly interested; most of them have, and are, giving more attention to lurid accounts of local murder cases than to the signs of the times. That there should be such an apathy toward the happenings in the Near East, or anywhere outside the gates of our own cities, is deplorable. The world has reached a stage where all sections are coming into close contact...
...then of the utmost concern that university graduates see clearly amid the fog and think straight amidst the babel of confusing voices. It sometimes seems as if no public address could attract attention today unless it constitutes a lurid arraignment of present conditions, or else a wanton attack upon some person or group of individuals. In the field of politics one who declaims of how things should be done and who promises the impossible gains a ready audience, while one who soberly recites a record of actual accomplishment is quickly brushed aside. Many men who pick up their morning papers...
...Editors of the CRIMSON: Mr. MacVeagh's Letter is bitter; but it is sincere and brave, and it merits something of discussion. I think we are all shocked at the lurid sensationalism of the past few days; we all believe that the persons who fed the gaping maws of the press have committed the act unforgivable. Yet, is it not unfair to ascribe to the Jewish students alone, an account obviously concocted from various sources, colored by the feverish imagination of burrowing reporters, and from its very nature, purporting to sympathize with the "suppressed minority" whose suffering is "exposed...
...stated that not a week passes without one of the "aforesaid scions of steel czars" etc, "figuring in some lurid scandal". Even if I obtained my statistics from the issues of the most thoughtful, clean, and public-spirited members of our Boston press, I think I could successfully prove that the inventor of this "line" has slightly over-reached himself...