Word: luridness
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Tragic, Fair, Lurid, Unprejudiced
...Your lurid and sinister picture of papal politics belies the Christian aims of the Vatican. Franco, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Petain were not raised up by the Pope; he makes the best of a situation and tries to improve it. He works for justice, peace, charity, for religion and human welfare...
...world's greatest automobile market. He also learned to love competition by practicing it; auto selling in those days was a murderous free-for-all. Angelenos still remember that even so noble-minded a salesman as Hoffman bought up wrecks of competing makes, regaled his customers with lurid tales about the fate of their hapless owners...
Despite its lurid reputation, marijuana seems no more harmful than alcohol. Though habitual criminals often use it, psychiatrists and police narcotic experts have never been able to prove that it induces criminal tendencies in otherwise normal people. It is less habit-forming than tobacco, alcohol or opium. The most confirmed vipers have no particular craving for the drug. They just enjoy its effects. Like alcohol, of course, it can raise hell with orderly living, release bad as well as good personality traits. But in spite of the legends, no case of physical, mental or moral degeneration has ever been traced...
...decade of implacable struggle to foist its Weltanschauung on Roman Cathoolics, Nazi Germany has assaulted the Church with lurid charges. It has smeared the priesthood as a venal, immoral, politically intriguing, traitorous "black international." Last week came the most vicious charge of all: that the Church started World...