Word: luridness
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...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...
Heydrich managed to keep his name out of the papers until three or four years ago. He stood in the shadow behind the lurid light of Heinrich Himmler, head of all the German police. Himmler's top man for the uniformed police is General Kurt Daluege; for the Gestapo, Heydrich. But Heydrich is much more powerful than Daluege, and he might, if it came to a test, prove more powerful even than Himmler. He knows everything that Himmler knows and he has spies everywhere, even in the lairs of his closest associates. For the time being all three...
...Degradation. The New Order has degraded and brutalized the captive nations of Europe, but the first nation the New Order captured was Germany. The numbing sickness of conquest has infected Germany, too. Nine years of incessant, pulverizing propaganda, liberally sprinkled with lurid obscenities concerning the private lives of Jews and others not in Nazi favor, have so poisoned and fevered the German mind that the filth-on-the-air technique has been turned against certain Nazi officials by such mysterious enemies as "The Chief," who operates an outlaw radio station somewhere in or near Germany and tells of the private...
...harmless piece of flimsy-whimsy about a poor little rich girl who makes friends with a kindly old tramp, visits him in his hobo jungle, coos over his tame rat, prattles on about Life. Her snobbish parents and his tougher fellow tramps whip up, between them, some lurid melodrama, but nothing that a final curtain can't cure...