Word: luridness
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Unawed. A sour man with a lurid private vocabulary, Charley never seemed to work. He often needed a shave, spent much time in the Press Club playing chess and dominoes with his newspaper cronies. He held no man in awe. Once Franklin Roosevelt greeted reporters with the remark that there was no news "except that Charley Michelson needs a haircut." Snapped Michelson: "Somebody's got to economize around here." Once he told Jim Farley: "Jim, you're the most honest man alive. You wouldn't steal anything-except an election...
This time it was blonde Bettye Mills's Stork Club, located on a lurid strip of honky-tonks known as The Block. Bettye not only serves drinks, she has strippers for entertainment. And for free she tosses the mob her garter every night. Such goings-on, Sherm felt, would "impair and cause severe damage" to his reputation...
...Atomic Age rolls on toward its lurid future, more & more people are losing their homes because of it. The U.S. Navy was as gentle as possible with the bewildered, evicted natives of Bikini; but the Navy could not explain. The Russian-German authorities in the scenic Erz Gebirge (Ore Mountains) of southern Saxony did not have to explain. The local Germans knew quite well that the Russians were mining pitchblende (uranium ore) as fast as possible, and they knew what...
...Believing that God was within man, he was scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, found almost no audience...
Divorced. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay Bradstreet Whitaker, 33, who once suffered national tabloid fame as the "sterilized heiress"; by her third husband, Mining Operator John Whitaker, 56; after six years; in Reno. Heiress Ann (daughter of Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt) in 1936 filed a lurid suit (eventually dropped) charging that her mother had had her illegally sterilized...