Word: luridness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been "struck down in the dark by the dread 'polio' germ." He dressed up his four-column story with a full-bosomed photograph of Diver Georgia Coleman (stricken with infantile paralysis three years ago), pathetic pictures of onetime Iron Man Gehrig "before and after," and a lurid drawing of "the Yanks" smitten by a terrifying plague...
...observers had it figured out another way: that he had a gloomy conviction that Great Britain was going to be defeated within the next 60 days; that the impact of the defeat upon the U. S. people would nullify all the rules of a campaign year; that in the lurid light of such an event, ordinary political needs, courtesies, funds, managers, candidates, deals would make little difference; that it was no matter if Jim Farley went, if Jack Garner hunted, fished, sulked, if political hacks carried the Party banner in State races; that with England gone...
...flows past Hull. In deep pockets on both flanks of the Pennines lie coal and iron (the min ing regions are shown on the map by tipples) near which the great industrial centres grew - Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester. Around these cities lies "black country," shrouded in smoke, lurid at night with the red belch of blast furnaces, so ugly and acrid that a tough people grew tougher to endure it. Rail roads and narrow motor highways, with varied surfacing, tie the Midlands cities together...
...telling of this lurid, rather hopped-up tale Rumer Godden brings three saving graces: an acute sense of psychological tension and overtone, a coolly notable skill at prose, a peculiar ability in atmospheres (she seems particularly to be obsessed with the look of pale things in darkness). These talents alone may not make a first-rate novel: but they have a snaky power to hypnotize, and a certain distinction...
...friends. Trainer Jack Blackburn admitted that Joe didn't care much, one way or the other, about fighting. From newspapers and court files Earl Brown traced Manager Roxborough's connections with the numbers racket, Manager Julian Black's impressive police record. Some of the more lurid facts about the Louis entourage were generously omitted from the story...