Word: luridness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boys and girls in the upper teens are apparently committing more U.S. crimes. There were as yet no conclusive figures. But the nation's newspapers and police-station blotters were daily splashed with lurid ink about the deeds of the generation just too young to fight. Juvenile delinquency rose 10% last year in New York and Chicago, was up to 100% in war-boom towns. Case histories of last week...
...author of the best-selling Out of the Night, which he wrote under the name of Jan Valtin, hulking, gap-toothed Richard Krebs had shocked U.S. readers with his offhand account of a lurid, turbulent life as an agent of both the Ogpu and Gestapo. He later admitted he had added the experiences of other men "to make the book as effective as possible," was roundly denounced by Communists as a faker. But his fame was his undoing: he admitted that he had once before been deported by the U.S., that he had committed perjury -both grounds for deportation...
...before being commissioned as officers in any branch of the armed forces will be trained at the Harvard Business School, proudly announced "The Business School Bugle," a bootleg, burlesque paper which Friday leaped into lurid prominence in the world across the Charles...
...bank on it. For years they had said "Watch Somervell," and the lean, easy Arkansan had always come through. He had come through so surprisingly that at 50 he was wearing the three silver stars of a lieutenant general. Still unruffled, still masking his occasional bursts of temper with lurid volleys of good-natured profanity, he bosses the biggest show in the U.S. armed forces. It is likely to become the biggest show in the whole U.S. war effort...
...characteristics, the Negro problem in the South, shop-lifting among the young; these are among the themes employed by Advocate fiction writers in this sixth month of the war. The current Spring Fiction Issue which marks the first publication of the new Executive Board, departs from the macabre, the lurid and overly degenerate, characteristic of last year's issues. It is a welcome departure and one that should gain many new readers for Harvard's oldest literary magazine...