Word: luridness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ecdysiast* ten years ago, Gypsy (whose finale at the time consisted in dropping her garter belt in the tuba) called Mencken an intellectual snob, accused him bitterly of reading books. Now Gypsy has committed the final act of intellectual snobbery, written a book herself. It is a lurid, witty and highly competent detective story...
...Hellfire") Lanson's mountainous egoism crushed hers like a mouse. A good-looking, powerful, self-educated fellow-Swinburne was his favorite poet; Nietzsche was his god-Ed's flood of talk was mostly a lurid rehash of his reading. Ellen was too ignorant even to understand much of it, but it fascinated her. Ed was a good salesman, but he hated to kowtow to people, tossed up one job after another. He liked to stay away from home, living in hotels and boardinghouses...
From North Carolina's port side burst a flaming earthquake-a roar that shattered its way to the marrow of man, a lurid flame that seemed to lick the water for hundreds of yards and lift itself above the ranging top of the foremast. The deck slid to starboard, oscillated to port, leveled off handily, rode steady again...
...railroads should be reassessed, presumably at lower figures. Such a reassessment would force Hague to increase assessments on other Jersey City properties, already at the highest level in the U.S. An automatic lowering of the debt limit would follow, might bring Jersey City's fancy finances into the lurid red; for Hague has borrowed heavily in anticipation of railroad-tax collections...
...books for almost every medical bibliophile in the U.S. His star customer was the late Neurologist Harvey Cushing, whose famed medical collection was recently installed in the new Yale Medical Library. Dr. Cushing longed for the first medical book ever published in the American colonies-a copy of a lurid best-seller on herbalism which had been written in England by one Nicholas Culpeper (Boston, 1708). But he never got his hands on one of these first editions...