Word: luridness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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...
Famed Japanese publicists Teisuka Akiyama and Seijiro Kawashima detonated into lurid phrase again last week, called upon Japan to declare war on the U. S., rehashed with venom the celebrated "Hanihara incident."† (TIME, April...
...melodramatists that one may see in this inhibited country off the one-night stands. This, apparently, is what the Spanish crave, Raquel Meller to the contrary. Maria Guerrero had the most to do. She fulminated and she growled, stamped and tore the plays to bits. Most of them were lurid melodramas, sensitive to this sort of treatment. Spaniards in the packed galleries howled back their delight with equal fervor. Nordics called it movie acting, excellent of its type but uninteresting to us. Some of them cruelly termed the proceedings "ma?...