Word: luridness
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...wrecked trawler had just been found on lonely Samana Cay, 300 miles southeast. At once they leaped to the conclusion that the wreck was the mysterious Girl Pat, brand new trawler which ran away from Great Grimsby on the Humber, England, on All Fools' Day and, after lurid adventures, was last reported fortnight ago off Guiana (TIME, June 8 & 22). Before they could investigate, the Girl Pat turned up safely at Georgetown, British Guiana...
Late in life Harriette wrote her Memoirs as part of a blackmailing scheme. Describing her former companions in long and lurid detail, she thoughtfully gave each the opportunity to be omitted from the volumes, or to be described in a very good light, in return for a cash payment. Harriette, even when her professional career was in full flower, had wanted to be a writer. But the highbrow novels and plays she turned out were affected, pompous, unreadable. When she slapped out the 250,000 words of her Memoirs for a despicable purpose, writing about the life she knew best...
...entered Northwestern University at 15, left to play in a stock company, hang wallpaper, work on a road-gang, as a janitor; went back to college on a scholarship when his poems began to be published. Meantime he was leading a literary double life as pseudonymous writer of lurid tales for the pulp magazines...
Such was the lurid story disclosed by Detroit police to the Press last week. Their arrest of 16 Black Legionaries as suspects in the murder of Charles Poole, whose widow denied that he ever beat her, unearthed a sinister and hitherto little known U. S. nightshirt organization. Of late years Southern hillbillies, steeped...
...forced the demented old redskin to wed her, her marriage was annulled two months before Barnett's death. Since then, lower courts have held that she cannot share in the rich oil estate. Last week, in Los Angeles, frustrated, 50-year-old Mrs. Lowe published a lurid booklet named Truth to air her grievances. Twenty-three pages long, Truth is illustrated by photographs of Indian Barnett before and after marriage. In one set he is a dirty old codger living in a squalid hut. In the other he has a shave, a new coat, a mansion, Anna Laura Lowe...